 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  St. Clair; Or, The Heiress of Desmond - Page 44by Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1812Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...chearfulnefs of the philofopher or the ftudcnt, the aoiufements of t contemplative mind. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you befted, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in fome idle brain, £ And fancies fond with... | |
 | John Leake - Pregnancy - 1787 - 470 pages
...refine them, feems to have had this beautiful paflage in view at the opening of his // Penferofo. '• Hence vain deluding joys, • , " The brood of folly, without father bred, " How little you befted, " Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ;— «. " But hail thou Goddefs, fage and holy,... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 484 pages
.... Thefe delights if thou canftgive, Mirth, with thee I mean to live< IL , Wilton.' ^ IL PENSEROSO. •Hence vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you befted, Or fill the fixed mind with all jour toys? Dwell in fome idle brain, And fancies fond with... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1790 - 346 pages
...When, if the fool had longer ftaid, The harmlefs fifh had been betray'd. JOHN MILTON. IL P£NSEKOSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred! How little you befted, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys: Dwell in fome idle brain, And fancies fond with... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...Eurydice. 150 Thefe delights if thou canft give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. XIV. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain -deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you befted, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in fome idle brain, c And fancies fond with... | |
 | John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...of moft otk: poets, that it is marked with a degree of dignity. IL PENSEROSO. [ «7 1 IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you befted, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in fome idle brain, 5 And fancies fond with... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...delights if tliou canft give, Mirth, with thce I mean to live. § г. IL PENSKROSO. MiLTox. TTENCE, vain deluding joys, *•* The brood of folly, without father bred, How little you bcfied, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in fome idle brain, And fancies fond with... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO. IL PENSEROSO. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 842 pages
...i:; It) 113 1:0 Tiefcdelighut if thoo caflft give, ... o. withtbecl mean to live. XIV. IL PENSOROSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred, How little yon hefted, Or fill the filed mind with all your toy* ! Dwell in fome idle brain, And fancies fond... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...that Milton preferred the melancholy ; and his conclusion to the poem puts it out of doubt : — " 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... | |
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