...These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO.— Milton. 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...

...once cost us a gush of sad tears, and thus at length we have learned to forget. CHAPTER XV. Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of Folly, without father bred, How little you bestead, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys. MILTON. How beautiful, how fragrant, how laden...

...Perhaps he was afraid of avowing it, on account of the license of their muse. IL PENSEROSO. Hence, vain deluding Joys, The brood of Folly without Father bred ! How little yon bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys ! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond...

...remembered long after, amid tears more bitter than any she had this day shed. CHAPTER II. " Hence, vain deluding joys, The brood of folly, without father...bested, Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys." Milton. " I AM always sorry, Matilda, to interfere in any way with your enjoyments, but you must feel...

...F.urydice. These delights, if thou canst gire, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Ц Paueroso. Hence d. It had been well Could you have liv'd thus always...too much i' th' light — but no more ; I come to I Dwell in some idle brain ; And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, AB thick and numberless As...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...II Penseroso, he too rejects a form of imagination. His banishment of L'Allegrain frivolity ("Hence vain deluding joys, / The brood of folly without father...mind with all your toys; / Dwell in some idle brain" [1-4]) employs all the antipoetic "buzz-words": "toys," "idle brain," "fancies fond," and "vain." Indeed,...