...half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give. Mirth, with thee I mean to live IL PENSEROSO. %a R XD Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess. As thick and numberless As the...

...Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. MILTON. IL PENSEEOSO. HENCE, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly, without...that people the sunbeams ; Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail ! thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail ! divinest Melancholy...

...half-rcgain'd Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. II Pcntercao. nial The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail divinest Melancholy,...

...love."—WARTON. Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the licence of their muse. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams; 8 Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage...

...WARTON. Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the licence of their muse. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams ;8 Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess,...

...love."—WARTON. Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the licence of their muse. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams; 8 Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess, sage...

...WAETON. Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the licence of their muse. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams;8 Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess,...

...love."—WARTON. Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the licence of their muse. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without...with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the'gay motes that people the sunbeams; s Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus'...

...experience and sympathies. Beautiful though " L'Allcgro" is, " II Penseroso" How little you bestead,1 Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell...that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners2 of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy...

...licence of their muse. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without Father bred 1 How little you bested, Or fill the fixed mind with...numberless As the gay motes that people the sunbeams ; B Or likeliest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. But hail, thou Goddess,...