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The Muses' Bower,: Embellished with the Beauties of English Poetry - Page 115
by English poetry - 1809
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The beauties of English poetry, selected from the most esteemed ..., Volume 1

John Wolcot - 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, Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of MORPHEUS' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and...
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The Beauties of English Poetry, Volume 1

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...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

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'...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

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...
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The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

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...
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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

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....
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

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...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 3-4

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...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likeliest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou Goddess, sage and...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

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...that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...
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A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine: I. Ancient ...

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...that people the sun-beams Or likest hovering dreams " Tbefekle pensioners of Morpheus' train. ,,,, , ru //. Pens. / ^ \\ lien Milton wrote, Wallowing unwieldy,...
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