 | John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...father bred : How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,...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... | |
 | E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...little you bested, 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 likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpbeus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1809 - 562 pages
...This page of Du Bartas was before Milton when he wrote Hence vain deluding joys Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess...dreams •' The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. ,,,, ..-., //. Pens. / ' ° \\ lien Milton wrote, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their o-ate,' Tempest... | |
 | English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...father bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess....people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...fill the fixed mind with all your toys: Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shape possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess sage and holy ! Hail,... | |
 | English poetry - 1810 - 308 pages
...father bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,...Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 564 pages
...father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Unt hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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 gaudy shapes possess,...people the sun-beams; Or likest hovering dreams, The h'ckle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy!... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams J Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 446 pages
...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 gaudy shapes possess,...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... | |
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Dwell in some idol 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' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest... 
