 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...licence of their muse. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without Father bred 1 How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams ; B Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 378 pages
...cross." — Venturi. (115.) " As thick as motes i' th' sunbeam." — Chaucev. And Milton, Penseroso, " As thick and numberless as the gay motes that people the sunbeams." Also Lucretius, ii. 113, " Contemplator enim, cum solis lumina canque Inserti fundunt radii per opaca... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1845 - 370 pages
...cross." — Venturi. (115.) " As thick as motes i' th' sunbeam." — C'liuuecr. And Milton, Penseroto, " As thick and numberless as the gay motes that people the sunbeams." Also Lucretius, ii. 1 13, " Contemplator enim, euro soils lumina cunqne Insert! fundunt radii per opaca... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father bread, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell...Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. MILTON. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without father...fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle bram ; And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...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...bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys I Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As... | |
 | Albert Ramsdell Gurney - 86 pages
...her; to GIRL.) She doesn't memorize Milton. - . . GRANDMOTHER. (Reciting as she walks out.) "Hence! Vain deluding joys, The brood of folly, without father...mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain . . ." (She is out by now. BILLY looks at his GIRL and then trots after his GRANDMOTHER.) (The piano... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...of mirth is worthless, and its contrasted pleasures. First, cries " the pensive man :" — " Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father...bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys!" But how far this grand puritan poet was from proscribing the true enjoyments of life is shown by the... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...offouy without father bred, How little you betted, Or fill tbefxed mind with all your toyes; Dweuin som idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,...thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams, Or likeft bovering dreams Tbefckle Pensioners o/ Morpheus train. But bail tbou Goddes, sage... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 pages
...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...mind with all your toys; / Dwell in some idle brain" [1-4]) employs all the antipoetic "buzz-words": "toys," "idle brain," "fancies fond," and "vain." Indeed,... | |
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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 
