 | 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
...regain'd Eurydiee. These delights, if thou eanst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO. `q till the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And faneies fond with gaudy shapes... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEIIOSO. ! ! i r., vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the Axed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess.... | |
 | English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Milton. II, 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... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...and Aversion mingled with Pity ; ' Awe, mingled with 3 Delight, sometimes relaxing into 4 Gloom. 1 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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee 1 mean to live. Ml LION. CHAP. XVII. IL 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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 814 pages
...gossip's feast, and amide with me, After so long grief such nativity. Id. Fancies fond wilh gaudy shape« possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the suu-bcunj. ilillm. A gold-finch there I saw, with gaudy pride Of painted plumes, that hopped .from... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...PF.XSKHOSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood cf folly, without father bred ! How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell...that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The tickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. UNI hail, thou goddess, sage and holy! Hall, dirlnest Melancholy!... | |
 | William Toone - English language - 1832 - 532 pages
...used in the sense of accommodation, whether good or ill, and by Milton implying to confer or bestow. Hence vain deluding joys. The brood of folly, without father bred! How little you bested. 11. PlNSEROSO. BESTRAUGHT, a corruption of distraught; mad, out of one's senses. O goddesse sonne,... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...Fletcher's P. Island, c. vi. s. 77. ' To-morrow shall ye feast in pastures new.' Warton. IL 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, 5 And fancies fond with... | |
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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 
