 | Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 頁
...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,... | |
 | Walter Hinderer, Alexander von Bormann - 1997 - 356 頁
...und wird von John Milton in „II Penseroso" als Flattergetier im Kopf verbildlicht: „Dwell in som idle brain,/ And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess,/...thick and numberless/ As the gay motes that people the Sun Beams". In Schillers „Wallenstein" sind es Vögel vergleichbar mit dem kopfumschwirrenden Nachtgetier... | |
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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 sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus 
