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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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Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the ...

Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...heaven before mine eyes ; in a word, one set of association induces mirth, the other, contemplation. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bread, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain,...
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The Poetical Works, of John Milton: With a Memoir and Seven Embellishments

John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. TL 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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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 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, indeed, You were bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys I Dwell in some idle brain ; And fancies fond with...
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Two Lives: Or, To Seem and to be

Maria Jane McIntosh - Cousins - 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, to interfere...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to lire. II Ptnacrom. Hence rain ch him struck he came, And roiir'd bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toy* ! Dwell in some idle brain ; And fancies fond with...
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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 fond with...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1848 - 420 pages
...give, Mirth, with thee 1 mean to live. " Hence, vain deluding joj<s, The brood of Folly." IL PENSEBOSO. 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 the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 pages
...free His half-regained 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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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 motes that...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...ear Of Pluto to 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 fond with...
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