 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
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. VOL. IV. 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 holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...on a bed vers, and bear have won the * ; set free dice. IL PENSEROSO. a to li VOL. iv. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou. Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thoii canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PEXSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...thick and numberless As the gay motes that people tlie sun-beams ; Or lifcest hovering dreams, __. The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. I'lt ii.nl,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 pages
...similar, that the resemblance may be seen in the strqngest point of view. II Penseroso begins thus : Hence vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without...thick and numberless, As the gay motes that people the sun beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train : But hail thou goddess... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 568 pages
...&c." This page of Du Bartas was before Milton when he wrote '»s follows : Hence vain deluding joys Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy...people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams The fable pensioners of Morpheus' train. IL Pens. When Milton wrote, part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy,... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, t And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...sense of human sight. And therefore to our weaker view 1 S O'er-laid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's sister... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 596 pages
...referred to lunacy, as supposed to be connected with the moon. iv. ce 242 Dwell in some idle brain, 3 And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus train. But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, 11 Hail divinest Melancholy, 8. This line intimates that all... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 588 pages
...to be referred to lunacy, as supposed to be connected with the moon. Dwell in some idle brain, . 5 And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick...hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus train. But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, 11 Hail divinest Melancholy, 8. This line intimates that all... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...with thee I mean to five. IL PENSEROSO. HINTE, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without fatter bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. VOL. 11. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding Joys The brood of Folly without...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess! sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! "Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
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