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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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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...compositions to which the pictures in the moon have, in almost all known time, given rise. IL PENSEROSO. 1L 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 ! 1. The character of II Penseroso is to be ascribed...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...tfuin'd Eurydice. - i -1' These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. XIV. 1L 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, t And fancies fond with...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Kurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. § 2. IL PENSEROSO. MILIOK. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly, without father bred, How little you bestead, Of fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if tiou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. II PENSEROSO. BY THE SAME. 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 fond with...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thcc 1 mean to live. e the bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toy* ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...most musical, most melancholy," gave the first suggestion of the spirited introduction to Milton's II Penseroso. " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred ! . . . . But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melancholy, Whose saintly visage is...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...most musical, most melancholy," gave the first suggestion of the spirited introduction to Milton's II Penseroso. " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred ! . , . . But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melancholy, Whose saintly visage is...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 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, And fancies fond with...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. MlLTON. CHAP. XVII. DL 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, And fancies fond with...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 1-2

British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...* His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 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, And fancies fond with...
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