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
| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 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, IL PENSEROSO. Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
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| John Milton - 1855 - 64 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... | |
| 1855 - 540 pages
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| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
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| English poetry - 1857 - 334 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... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 pages
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| 1858 - 602 pages
...represent the opinions of the world, and 11 Penseroso those which were more befitting a philesopher. " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without father bred ! How little yon bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!" So he proposes to banish all silly suppositions... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...WARTON. Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the licence of their muse. .L 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... | |
| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
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