 | 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...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, 4 1 The Lydian measure was very soft and sweet. So Dryden, OJa on St. Cecilia's Day:— " Softly sweet,... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - American poetry - 1855 - 452 pages
...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...Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus9 train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...Day." — TODD. IL PENSEEOSO. HENCE, vain deluding Joys,* The brood of Folly without father bred I How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with...And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick ь and numberless As the gay-motes that people the sun-beams; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live.2 XIV. IL PENSEROS0.3 HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without...thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams,4 1 The Lydian measure was very soft and sweet. So Dryden, Ode on St. Cecilia's Day : —... | |
 | 1858 - 460 pages
...-JUflton. 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...shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motea that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.... | |
 | California - 1858 - 602 pages
...merely through the senses, to " dwell in some idle brain," and occupy " fancies fond with gaudy shapes," "As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train." And such, after all, is the language of Wisdom. It is, as he elsewhere expresses it, from the " Cynic... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...WARTON. Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the licence of their muse. .L PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams;' Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...if thou canst givn Mirth, with thec 1 mean to live: POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. 1L PENSEROSO. HKNCB, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without father...Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in nome idle brain, Ami fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess As thick and numberless As the gay moles... | |
 | William Sidney Walker - 1860 - 390 pages
...passage in Milton's Penseroso, l. 6, alludes to the pensioners' dress, — " gaudy shapes ~^—— As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train." In those times, pensioners, like pursuivants, progresses, &c., were still things familiar, and naturally... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1861 - 734 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. lS0 These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO. 1 HENCE, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. 10 But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
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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 gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that... 
