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" 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 gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that... "
Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes - Page 179
by John Milton - 1853
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir and Critical ..., Volume 2

John Milton, James Montgomery - 1861 - 548 pages
...His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth with thee I mean to live. 150 HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. ut, bail ! thon goddess sage and holy, [ail, divinest Melancholy ! /"hose saintly visage is too bright...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Paradise regined, Samson Agonistes, Comus ...

John Milton - Fall of man - 1861 - 534 pages
...These delights if thou canst give, Mirth with thee I mean to live. 199 150 C/'. " " ' IL PENSEBOSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without...that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, IL PENSEBOSO. But, hail ! thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage...
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Literary Class Book; Or, Readings in English Literature: To which is ...

Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds! XIII H. PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly, without...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or Kkest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of l^lorpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...PKNSEROSO, 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...The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train, But hail, than goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit...
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Complete Poetical Works

John Milton - 1862 - 568 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. These deliglils, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO.* HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without...the fixed mind with all your toys : Dwell in some idol brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes posses?, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that...
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Poetical Works: Volume 2. Paradise Regain'd; Samson Agonistes; Poems Upon ...

John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...delights, if thou canst give, Mirth with thee, I mean to live. // Penseroso HENCE vain deluding joyes, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toyes; Dwell in som idle brain, 5 And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 4

Literature - 1909 - 502 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...bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys I Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As...
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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...mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain . . ." (She is out by now. BILLY looks at his GIRL and then trots after his GRANDMOTHER.) (The piano...
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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...bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!" But how far this grand puritan poet was from proscribing the true enjoyments of life is shown by the...
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Miscellaneous Poems ; Paradise Regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...offouy without father bred, How little you betted, Or fill tbefxed mind with all your toyes; Dweuin som idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,...thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, Or likeft bovering dreams Tbefckle Pensioners o/ Morpheus train. But bail tbou Goddes, sage...
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