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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper - Page 211
by Alexander Chalmers - 1810
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L'Allegro and Il Penseroso

John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 3IL. PBRSBRtDS®. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without father bred! How little you...
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Poetry for schools

Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEKOSO. 3 ! ( Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, Hence, vain...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. O L O=O O" many fools ; and the wisdom of the first will not quit h IlPenseroto. Hence vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred ! How little you bested,...
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Notes and Queries

1895 - 666 pages
...meed decree, And I, 0 fear, will dwell with thee ! recall the last two lines of ' L' Allegro ':— These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. In ' An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of theHighlands of Scotland,' Collins writes, 11. 22-3 : —...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, MIRTH, with thee I mean to live. xv. — ALEXANDER'S FEAST. at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son — Aloft, in...
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The Poetry and Poets of Britain: From Chaucer to Tennyson ; with ...

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1850 - 596 pages
...Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. FROM IL PENSEROSO.4 Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred ! How little...
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John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical ...

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 145 ISO 141. Wanton heed, <f'-\] The antithesis between the noun and adjective, in this phrase and...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 30

1851 - 658 pages
...sketched them so well, that he closes with o couplet, which would not have disgraced a Sternhold : These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Of Mr. M.'s good intentions there can be no doubt ; but we beg leave to remind him, that in every compact...
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Memoir of Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff: With Selections from His ...

Edward Copleston, William James Copleston - 1851 - 374 pages
...sketched them so well, that he closes with a couplet, which would not have disgraced a Sternhold : These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Of Mr. M.'s good intentions there can be no doubt ; but we beg leave to remind him, that in every compact...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...Such strains as would have rung the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. FROM 'IL PENSEROSO.' Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy !...
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