 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  Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People - Page 50by Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 115 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 lehte
...experience and sympathies. Beautiful though " L'Allcgro" is, " II Penseroso" How little you bestead,1 Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners2 of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 378 lehte
...cross." — Venturi. (115.) " As thick as motes i' th' sunbeam." — Chaucev. And Milton, Penseroso, " As thick and numberless as the gay motes that people the sunbeams." Also Lucretius, ii. 113, " Contemplator enim, cum solis lumina canque Inserti fundunt radii per opaca... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 370 lehte
...cross." — Venturi. (115.) " As thick as motes i' th' sunbeam." — C'liuuecr. And Milton, Penseroto, " As thick and numberless as the gay motes that people the sunbeams." Also Lucretius, ii. 1 13, " Contemplator enim, euro soils lumina cunqne Insert! fundunt radii per opaca... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 lehte
...PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bread, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 lehte
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. MILTON. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without...fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle bram ; And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people... | |
 | 1909 - 502 lehte
...half-regained Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO (1633) HENCE, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys I Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As... | |
 | 1896 - 1080 lehte
...proposal as that made lately by the Great Eastern will have to work out its own salvation. Ilence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly, without father bred, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! There are and will be for some time more milk... | |
 | Albert Ramsdell Gurney - 86 lehte
...(Starting after her; to GIRL.) She doesn't memorize Milton. - . . GRANDMOTHER. (Reciting as she walks out.) "Hence! Vain deluding joys, The brood of folly, without...mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain . . ." (She is out by now. BILLY looks at his GIRL and then trots after his GRANDMOTHER.) (The piano... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 lehte
...what kind of mirth is worthless, and its contrasted pleasures. First, cries " the pensive man :" — " Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without...bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!" But how far this grand puritan poet was from proscribing the true enjoyments of life is shown by the... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 lehte
...offouy without father bred, How little you betted, Or fill tbefxed mind with all your toyes; Dweuin som idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,...thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, Or likeft bovering dreams Tbefckle Pensioners o/ Morpheus train. But bail tbou Goddes, sage... | |
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