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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 sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus "
Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin - Page 63
by John Milton - 1785 - 620 pages
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ...

Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...delights if tliou canft give, Mirth, with thce I mean to live. § г. IL PENSKROSO. MiLTox. TTENCE, vain deluding joys, *•* The brood of folly, without father bred, How little you bcfied, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in fome idle brain, And fancies fond with...
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Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of ...

John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO. IL PENSEROSO. 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 fond with...
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The temple of Apollo, being a selection of the best poems, from the most ...

Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...half-regain'd EURYDICE. Thefe deliglits, if thou canft give, MELANCHOLY. TJENCE, vain deluding joys, -1 A The brood of folly, without father bred, How little...fome idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy fhapes poffefs, As thick and numberleis As the gay'motes that people the fun-beams, Or likelieft hovering...
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Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler. Rochester. Roscommon. Otway. Waller. Pomfret ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...i:; It) 113 1:0 Tiefcdelighut if thoo caflft give, ... o. withtbecl mean to live. XIV. IL PENSOROSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred, How little yon hefted, Or fill the filed mind with all your toy* ! Dwell in fome idle brain, And fancies fond...
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Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...that Milton preferred the melancholy ; and his conclusion to the poem puts it out of doubt : — " 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 fond with...
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The Beauties of English Poetry, Volume 1

Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...EURYDICE. These delights if thou canst give, MIRTH, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO. BY MILTON. 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 fond with...
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The beauties of English poetry, selected from the most esteemed ..., Volume 1

John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...EURYDICE. These delights if thou canst give, MIRTH, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO. BY MILTON. 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 fond with...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...thou canst give , Mirth , with th.ee I mean to live.. MIX/ION*. CHAP. XVII. // Penseroso, H, LENCE , 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 fond with...
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The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...delights il thou canft give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. MILTON. CHAP. XVII. 1L PENSEROSO. .TlENCE vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred! How little j'ou beftead, Or fill the fixed mind with al! your toys! Dwell in fome idle brain, And fancies fond...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PEXS F.ROSO. (MILTOJf.) 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 fond with...
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