| Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. HENCE, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without father...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams, Or likest hovering dreams, 1 A luxurious people of Asia Minor. 8 The fable about Orpheus is, that he went... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...Mirth, with thee I mean to live. "Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly." IL PEISEROSO HENCE, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without father...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Bnt, hail ! thou goddess sage and... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give Mirth, with thee I mean to live IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, notes that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.... | |
| Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - English poetry - 1852 - 438 pages
...brood of Folly without rather bred. How little yon bested Or fill the fixed mind with all your toyes ? Dwell in some idle brain. And fancies fond with gaudy...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams. Or likest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail , thon Goddess , sage and... | |
| Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. MlI.TOX MILTON. HENCE vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly without father...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 holy,... | |
| John Milton - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 412 pages
...delights, if thou canst give, Mirth with thee, I mean to live. // Penseroso HENCE vain deluding joyes, The brood of folly without father bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toyes; Dwell in som idle brain, 5 And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless... | |
| Literature - 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 - American drama - 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... | |
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