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" 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 148
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The Gem book of poesie, by the author of 'The ancient poets and poetry of ...

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...
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The Idler Reformed

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,...
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Poetry for Home and School ...

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...
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Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be

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,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

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...
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L'Allegro and Il Penseroso

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...
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Poetry for schools

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...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

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...
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The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with ...

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...
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John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical ...

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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