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
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. MILTON. 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 bram ; And fancies... | |
| Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 pages
...recollections which once cost us a gush of sad tears, and thus at length we have learned to forget. CHAPTER XV. Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys. MILTON. How beautiful, how fragrant,... | |
| 1846 - 436 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO.— Milton. 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, And fancies... | |
| Maria Jane McIntosh - 1847 - 284 pages
...vow to be remembered long after, amid tears more bitter than any she had this day shed. CHAPTER II. " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly, without father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys." Milton. " I AM always sorry, Matilda,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...half-regain'd F.urydice. These delights, if thou canst gire, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Ц Paueroso. t. Ferd. It had been well Could you have liv'd thus always : for, indee little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys I Dwell in some idle brain ; And fancies... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 3IL. PBRSBRtDS®. 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, And fancies... | |
| Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...mean to live. IL PENSEKOSO. 3 ! ( Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested,* . And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay... | |
| George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, % 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 J Dwell in some idle bruin, And fancies... | |
| Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. FROM IL PENSEROSO.4 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, And fancies... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...half-regained Eurydice vanished from his sight. IL PENSEROSO, THE THOUGHTFUL MAN. 69 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, 5 And fancies... | |
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