| 1821 - 702 páginas
...entertaining work, their insertion will confer a favour on your's respectfully, IOTA. Liverpool, May 29, 1821. HENCE, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein yon spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 páginas
...or Passionate Madman, an Address to Melancholy, which is the perfection of this kind of writing. " Hence, all you vain delights; As short as are the...melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sight that piercing mortifies ; A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 páginas
...Madman, an Address to Melancholy, which is the perfection of this kind of writing. " Hence, all yon vain delights; As short as are the nights Wherein...melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sight that piercing mortifies ; A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 páginas
...or Passionate Madman, an Address to Melancholy, which is the perfection of this kind of writing. " Hence, all you vain delights; As short as are the...your folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If mau were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh, sweetest melancholy. Welcome folded arms and fixed... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 472 páginas
...Passionate Madman. The reader will not be displeased to see it here, as it is well worth tianscribing. Hence all you vain delights, As short as are the nights...Melancholy, Oh sweetest Melancholy. Welcome folded arms, and fix'd eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd... | |
| Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 páginas
...the poetry we have just inserted with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. I'.\ ». ( \(>/,v.) Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the...sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 páginas
...contrasting the poetry we have just inserted with a song, by Fletcher, on a similar subject. PAS. (Sings). Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly f There 's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see 't But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded... | |
| Walter Scott - 1825 - 260 páginas
...Whrrein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If rhan were wise to see't But only melancholy ! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look (hat's fastended to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 268 páginas
...alone, and plunging into a recess near the castle, called the wilderness. " I would much rather— • Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sigh that, piercing, mortifies, A look chat's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up without a sound.' " But here he was disappointed... | |
| Henry Neele - 1830 - 586 páginas
...short as are the nights, In which you spend jour folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, If men were wise to see't, But only Melancholy. Oh ! sweetest...fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing, mortifies ; A look that fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a Bound ; Fountain-heads, and pathless groves,... | |
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