| William Enfield - 1823 - 412 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...the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy !... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...owls; A midnight bell, a parting groan, These are the sounds we feed upon ; Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 Then stretch our bones in a still gloomy valley, Nothing's so dainty sweet, as lovely Melancholy.... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 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...Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morphens' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shape's possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes...dreams. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou godde.«, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! ЛУЪозе saintly visage is too... | |
| James Montgomery - 1824
...3 3433 07576938 4 IEIJQX LIBRARY _^ ^ T j ! ! PROSE, » A POET. Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams. IL 1-K.NSr.nosn. That (train I beard was of a higher mood. LYCIDAS. fJV TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. PHILADELPHIA... | |
| James Montgomery - 1824 - 312 pages
...LONDON : Vrinted by A. & R. Spottiswoode, Kew.S.reet.Square. PROSE BY A POET. Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun.bcams. IL PENSEROSO. That strain I heard was of a higher mood. LYCIDAS. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I.... | |
| James Montgomery - 1824 - 230 pages
...3433 07576944 2 LEI?OX LIBRARY ' PROSE, A POET. Dwell in some idle brain, l , And fancies fond wiili gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams. 11. PENSEBOSO. That strain I heard wai of a higher mood. LYCIDis. 7JV TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. PHILADELPHIA:... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...the more certain of this allusion on account of the following comparison - likest hovering dreams. 7. As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams,'] A similitude copied from Chaucer. Wife of Bath's Tale, ver. 868. As thik as motis in the sunnl beme.... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And faneies fond with gaudy shapes posses, As thiek c fiekle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melaneholy,... | |
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