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The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their ... - Page 164
1804
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...delights; As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh,...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...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...As short as are the nights Wherein you spend 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 eyes, A sight that piercing mortifies ; A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 3

John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly; There's nought in this life sweet. If man were wise to see't, But only Melancholy, Oh sweetest Melancholy. Welcome folded arms, and fix'd eyes, A sigh that piercing morti6es, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up...
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The Novels of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe ...: To which is Prefixed, a ..., Volume 10

Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life 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 ground, A tongue chained up, without a sound ! Fountain heads,' and pathless groves,...
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Lives of the novelists, Volumes 1-2

sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1825 - 554 pages
...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 arms, and fixed eyes,...look that's fastened to the ground, A tongue chained up, without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves ! Moonlight...
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Lives of the Novelists, Volume 1

Walter Scott - 1825 - 260 pages
...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...
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De Vere: Or, The Man of Independence, Volume 1

Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 268 pages
...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...
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Lectures on English poetry

Henry Neele - 1830 - 586 pages
...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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Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to ..., Volume 6

John Genest - 1832 - 626 pages
...delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy ; Oh,...eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves,...
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Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to ..., Volume 6

John Genest - 1832 - 624 pages
...your folly I There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy; Ob, sweetest melancholy! Welcome, folded arms, and fixed...eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound! Fountain heads, and pathless groves,...
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