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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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The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with ...

Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. FROM IL PENSEROSO.4 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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Poetical Works

John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. OF L ALLEGRO. IL PENSER080. HRNOB, 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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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. ЛРепвепао. Hence rain nger guard. His daintiness to keep (each curious palate's proof) From h bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain ; And fancies fond with...
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The works of John Milton in verse and prose, with a life of the ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...Mantle blew : To morrow to frefh Woods, and Failures new. II Penferofo. i )ENCE vain deluding joyes, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you befted, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toyes ; Dwell in fome idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy fhapes poflefs, As thick and numberlefs...
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John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical ...

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...condition, and his half-regained Eurydice vanished from his sight. IL PENSEROSO, THE THOUGHTFUL MAN. 69 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, 5 And fancies fond with...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

Literature - 1909 - 500 pages
...half-regained Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO (1633) HENCE, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys I Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with...
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Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 39

English periodicals - 1896 - 1080 pages
...proposal as that made lately by the Great Eastern will have to work out its own salvation. Ilence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly, without father bred, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! There are and will be for some time more milk...
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Scenes from American Life

Albert Ramsdell Gurney - American drama - 86 pages
...(Starting after her; to GIRL.) She doesn't memorize Milton. - . . GRANDMOTHER. (Reciting as she walks out.) "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 . . ." (She is out by now....
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The Central literary magazine, Volume 4

Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...what kind of mirth is worthless, and its contrasted pleasures. First, cries " the pensive man :" — " Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!" But how far this grand puritan poet was from proscribing...
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City of Discontent

Mark Harris - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 432 pages
...because the doctor is a good and sincere and earnest fellow and materia medica such a nice sound like II Penseroso hence vain deluding joys the brood of folly without father bred or is that L'Allegro. No. L'Allegro goes hence loathed a thing over the e hence loathed melancholy...
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