 | John Milton - 1826
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. XIV. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father...numberless As the' gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 213 pages
...Gloom. 1 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...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus 'train. *But hail, thou goddess, sage and... | |
 | English poetry - 1826
...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...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensio?iers of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 807 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEIIOSO. ! ! i r., vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the Axed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess.... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 346 pages
...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...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates Rogé - American poetry - 1832 - 882 pages
...PF.XSKHOSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood cf folly, without father bred ! How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The tickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. UNI hail, thou goddess, sage and... | |
 | John Milton - 1832
...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 fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people... | |
 | William Toone - English language - 1832 - 479 pages
...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 bested. 11. PlNSEROSO. BESTRAUGHT, a corruption of distraught; mad, out of one's senses. O goddesse sonne,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 392 pages
...Eurydice. 150 These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. * IL PENSEROSO. HEWCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without father...mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, 5 And fancies fond with gaudy shapes .possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins - English poetry - 1836 - 530 pages
...without father bred ! How little you liestod, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! fiKT'll in mme idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and... | |
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