 | Electronic journals - 1894 - 668 pages
...poets may also be noted :— As thikke as motes in the Sonné berne. Chaucer, • Wif of Bathes Tale.' As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams. Milton, ' II Penseroso.' As thick as idle motes in sunny ray. Thomson's ' Castle of Indolence.' If... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...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...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys J Dwell in some idle bruin, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, tliuu Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain ; And fancies fond with gaudy shapes posses«, " and hard, no stone Was hard enough to touch them...spoke 'em, The ignorant for current took "em ; Tha But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divincst Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - English poetry - 1850 - 596 pages
...bred ! How little you bestead, 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 pcople the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners* of Morphens' train. Bat hail,... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...bred ! How little you bested Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, 5 And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 1 0 But hail, thou goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1851 - 282 pages
...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 people the sunbeams;8 Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess,... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...bred. How little yon bested Or fill the fixed mind with all your toyes ? Dwell in some idle brain. And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail , thon Goddess , sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...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...that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, 1 A luxurious people of Asia Minor. 8 The fable about Orpheus is, that he went to the shades below,... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, ave ? A F * notes that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.... | |
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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 sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus 
