| John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...toys 1 Dwell in some idle brain, 5 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' train. But hail thou Goddeß, sage and holy, n PENSEROS O. Flieh, eitle trügende Freude, vaterlose Brut der... | |
| John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...As thick and numberless • , .,,; ,.. As (he gay motes that people the su»-beal»s, Or likeliest hovering dreams The fickle pensioners of Morpheus'...Goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy, r Whose saintly visige is toe bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...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, As thick...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... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...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, As thick...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likeliest hovering Dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus* train.'" *' Begone, ye vain joys of Mirth... | |
| John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...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, As thick...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... | |
| Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...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, As thick...numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy I Hail, divinest MELANCHOLY ! Whose saintly visage is too bright... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...in some idle brain , And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess , As thick and numberless As the eay motes that people the sun-beams , Or likest hovering...dreams ! The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train-. But hail , thou Goddess , sage and holy , Hail , divinest Melancholy ! Whose saintly visage is too... | |
| E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...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 Morpheus' train. But hail, I him goddess, sage... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...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, As thick and numberless As the gay moles that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...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, As thick...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... | |
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