| John Wolcot - 1804 - 180 sider
...father bred : How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of MORPHEUS' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 sider
...little you bested, 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 sunbeams. Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpbeus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and... | |
| 1809 - 562 sider
...This page of Du Bartas was before Milton when he wrote Hence vain deluding joys Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess...dreams •' The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. ,,,, ..-., //. Pens. / ' ° \\ lien Milton wrote, Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their o-ate,' Tempest... | |
| English poetry - 1809 - 302 sider
...father bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess....people the sun-beams ; Or likest hovering dreams, But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy ! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
| British poets - 1809 - 512 sider
...fill the fixed mind with all your toys: Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shape possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hov'ring dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess sage and holy ! Hail,... | |
| 1810 - 308 sider
...father bred, How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ? Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,...Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view, O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue ; Black, but... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 564 sider
...father bred ! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,...dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. Unt hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 sider
...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 gaudy shapes possess,...people the sun-beams; Or likest hovering dreams, The h'ckle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy!... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 sider
...father bred! How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams J Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1811 - 446 sider
...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 gaudy shapes possess,...thick and numberless, As the gay motes that people the sun beams; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train: But hail thou goddess... | |
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