 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
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. VOL. IV. IL PENSEROSO. IL PENSEROSO. 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thoii canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PEXSEROSO. 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...similar, that the resemblance may be seen in the strqngest point of view. II Penseroso begins thus : 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...Eurydice. - i -1' These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. XIV. 1L PENSEROSO. 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, t And fancies fond with... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...which the pictures in the moon have, in almost all known time, given rise. IL PENSEROSO. 1L PENSEROSO. Hence vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! 1. The character of II Penseroso is to be ascribed... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Kurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. ยง 2. IL PENSEROSO. MILIOK. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly, without father bred, How little you bestead, Of fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if tiou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. II PENSEROSO. BY THE SAME. 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 in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes posses*,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thcc 1 mean to live. IL PENSEROSO. of a swain bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toy* ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. VOL. 11. IL PENSEROSO. 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. MlLTON. CHAP. XVII. DL PENSEROSO. 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 in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,... | |
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