| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 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,... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 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 chain'd up without a sound! Fountain heads, and pathless groves, Places... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...folly; There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, I Sober, gran. I Executioner!. But only melancholy; Oh, sweetest melancholy, Welcome folded arms and fixed eyes, A sight tliat piercing mortifies; A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a... | |
| 1856 - 754 pages
...your folly ; There's nought in this life sweet, Were men but wise to see't, But only Melancholy ; O sweetest Melancholy ! Welcome , folded arms and fixed eyes ; A sigh that , piercing , mgrtifies ; A look that's fastcn'd to the ground ; A tongue chain'd up without a sound. Fountain... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 396 pages
...delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you speed your folly ! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, Oh...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... | |
| Charles Mackay - 1857 - 334 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 arras and fixed eyes, A sigh that, piercing, modifies, A look that's fasten'd to the ground, A tongue... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...i'bakspeare or Milton ; and to these, therefore, we shall confine our extracts.3 ADDRESS TO MELANCHOLY. 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 np without a... | |
| William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 286 pages
...delights, As short aa are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly ! There's nought in this life's sweete, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy 1 Welcome folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastened to the... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 pages
...your folly! There's nought in this life sweet, If man were wise to see't But only melancholy! Weleome folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifies, A look that's fastcn'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up without a sound ! Fountain heads, and pathless groves,... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1859 - 742 pages
...nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's nought in thin life sweet, If man were wise to eee't, But only melancholy ; Oh, sweetest melancholy ! Welcome,...folded arms, and fixed eyes, A sigh that piercing mortifiée, Л look that's fastcn'd to the ground, A tongue chain'd up, without a sound ! Fountain... | |
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