 Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus  Il Propugnatore - Page 148edited by - 1876Full view - About this book
 | William Toone - 1832 - 584 pages
...used in the sense of accommodation, whether good or ill, and by Milton implying to confer or bestow. Hence vain deluding joys, The brood of folly, without father bred ! How little you tested. IL PENSEROSO. BESTRA TIGHT, a corruption of distraught ; mad, out of one's senses.... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...Fletcher's P. Island, c. vi. s. 77. ' To-morrow shall ye feast in pastures new.' Warton. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, 5 And fancies... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1842 - 310 pages
...opening a home for the afflicted. CHAPTER IX. Uonuin Filla. Cljr Of piiiij of t()r (Jhnpnor. <rijr Hence, vain, deluding joys ! The brood of folly, without father bred : How little you bested Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thce I mean to live IL PENSEROSO. tio little you bested, Or fill the filed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give. Mirth, with thee I mean to live IL PENSEROSO. %a R XD little you bested, Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess. As thick and... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth with thee I mean to live. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. MILTON. IL PENSEEOSO. HENCE, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...love."—WARTON. Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the licence of their muse. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without Father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 278 pages
...love."—WARTON. Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the licence of their muse. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without Father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 280 pages
...love."—WARTON. Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the licence of their muse. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without Father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies... | |
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