 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
 | 1855 - 540 pages
...free His half-regain 'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 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,... | |
 | American poetry - 1855 - 458 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO.— Milton. HENCE, vain, deluding joys, The brood of folly, without father bred How little you bestead, II, rKS'SFROSO. Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO. — Milton. HENCE, vain, deluding joys, The brood of folly, without father bred ! How little you bestead, IL PENSEROSO. Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 64 pages
...free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth with thee I mean to live. ! 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 - 1855 - 644 pages
...Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 3 XIV. IL PENSEROSO.3 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... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...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 father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys I Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with... | |
 | English periodicals - 1896 - 1080 pages
...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 and milk products than... | |
 | Albert Ramsdell Gurney - American drama - 86 pages
...(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 father bred ! How little you bested. Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain . . ." (She is out by now.... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...what kind of mirth is worthless, and its contrasted pleasures. First, cries " the pensive man :" — " Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!" But how far this grand puritan poet was from proscribing... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...As for II Penseroso, he too rejects a form of imagination. His banishment of L'Allegrain frivolity ("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" [1-4]) employs all... | |
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