 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  Milton's Poetical Works - Page 513by John Milton - 1861 - 662 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likeliest hovering Dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus* train.'" *' Begone, ye vain joys of Mirth... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, 'Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | 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...people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. IL PENSEROSO. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and hoiy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
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