 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  Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People - Page 50by Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 115 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...EURYDICE. These delights if thou canst give, MIRTH, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO. BY MILTON. HENCE vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy I Hail, divinest MELANCHOLY ! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...thou canst give , Mirth , with th.ee I mean to live.. MIX/ION*. CHAP. XVII. // Penseroso, H, LENCE , vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without Father...gaudy shapes possess , As thick and numberless As the eay motes that people the sun-beams , Or likest hovering dreams ! The fickle pensioners of Morpheus'... | |
 | E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...PENSEROSO. BY THE SAME. , v.un deluding joys, The hrood of folly without father hred, How little you hested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys? Dwell in some idle hrain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numherless As the gay motes that people... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1805 - 456 pages
...delights il thou canft give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. MILTON. CHAP. XVII. 1L PENSEROSO. .TlENCE vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred! How little j'ou beftead, Or fill the fixed mind with al! your toys! Dwell in fome idle brain, And fancies fond... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PEXS F.ROSO. (MILTOJf.) HENCE vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without...shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay moles that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...delighti if thou canst give, IL PENSEROSO. BY TRE SAME. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of foily, without father bred, How little you bested, Or fill...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...Eurydiee. fhesc delights if thou canst give, .lirth, with thee I mean to live. MILTON. VOL. mil EK c E vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father...hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, \Vhose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...'CHAP. XVH. /-I , Hr PENSEROSO. WHENCE vain ,deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred 1 How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy,... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...mean to live. '"*• " .'':• --•'"•) ! v - • ..' * ,' IL PENSEROSO. « r• * ~ • vB [IBID.] HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 pages
...flight, &c." This page of Du Bartas was before Milton when he wrote as follows: Hence vain deluding joys Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams Or likest hovering dreams " Tbefekle pensioners of Morpheus' train. ,,,, , ru //. Pens. / ^ \\ lien Milton... | |
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