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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical - Page 96
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Select Poets of Great Britain: To which are Prefixed, Criticial Notices of ...

William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...Eurydiee. These delights, if thou eanst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without father bred, How little you bested, Or till the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And faneies fond with...
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Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ...

1826 - 310 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Milton. II, 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, And fancies fond with...
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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 bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ; Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with...
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The Practice of Elocution, Or A Course of Exercises for Acquiring the ...

Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...Aversion mingled with Pity ; ' Awe, mingled with 3 Delight, sometimes relaxing into 4 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 in some idle brain, And fancies fond with...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1827 - 412 pages
...delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee 1 mean to live. Ml LION. CHAP. XVII. IL 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, And fancies fond with...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 3

John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...P. Island, c. vi. s. 77. ' To-morrow shall ye feast in pastures new.' Warton. IL 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...
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A Glossary and Etymological Dictionary of Obsolete and Uncommon Words ...

William Toone - 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...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...P. Island, c. vi. s. 77. ' To-morrow shall ye feast in pastures new.' Warton. IL 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...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 1L PENSEROSO. HENCB, 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...
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Rutilius and Lucius: Or Stories of the Third Age

Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1842 - 310 pages
...opening a home for the afflicted. CHAPTER IX. Uonuin Filla. Cljr Of piiiij of t()r (Jhnpnor. <rijr Hence, vain, deluding joys ! The brood of folly, without father bred : How little you bested Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast,...
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