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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author by S. Johnson - Page 192
by John Milton - 1807
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. XIV. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE vain deluding joys, The brood of folly without father...numberless As the' gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams But hail thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...Gloom. 1 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...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus 'train. *But hail, thou goddess, sage and...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

English poetry - 1826 - 310 pages
...PENSEROSO. 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...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensio?iers of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces

John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEIIOSO. ! ! i r., vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the Axed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess....
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...PENSEROSO. 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...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...PF.XSKHOSO. HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood cf folly, without father bred ! How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, The tickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. UNI hail, thou goddess, sage and...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...PENSEROSO. 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 in some idle brain, 5 And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people...
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A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words ...

William Toone - English language - 1832 - 532 pages
...the sense of accommodation, whether good or ill, and by Milton implying to confer or bestow. Hence vain deluding joys. The brood of folly, without father bred! How little you bested. 11. PlNSEROSO. BESTRAUGHT, a corruption of distraught; mad, out of one's senses. O goddesse sonne,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...Eurydice. 150 These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. * IL PENSEROSO. HEWCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without father...mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, 5 And fancies fond with gaudy shapes .possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...without father bred ! How little you liestod, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! fiKT'll in mme idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess...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...
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