 Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek, Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding...  Select British Classics - Page 3431803Full view - About this book
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and crapkf, and wanton wiles, Nods :.ixi becks, end wreathed smiles ; Such as hang on Hebe's cheek. And love to live in...; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both bis sidei, Come ! and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...Jesl and youthful jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and Wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrincled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Com, ana trip it as ye go On the light... | |
 | Willard Spiegelman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...moments of contemplative and aesthetic leisure. As such, "L'Allegro" is also an invitation to liberation: And in thy right hand lead with thee, The Mountain Nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures... | |
 | Brennan O'Donnell - English language - 1995 - 316 pages
...patterns between the extremes of "Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, / Sober, steadfast, and demure" and "Come, and trip it as you go / On the light fantastic toe" was widely acknowledged as a metrical tour de force defining the inherent virtues of the form. The... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and Wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sort that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go, On... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. 7512 'L'Allegro' Come, and trip it as ye D ?Ig+S A FWy5Q l7 } i + ֑k S> 3Ɱ& u h )g W ;1 - Q V 5`XT 7513 'L'Allegro' Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee. In unreproved pleasures... | |
 | Fanny Burney - England - 1999 - 1060 pages
...vistoria: victory! Tripping on light fantastic toe: alluding to Milton's 'L' Allegro' (I645), ll. 33-4: 'Come, and trip it as you go / On the light fantastic toe'. II i Don Devil: italics indicate quotation of Belfield's speech above, p. I09. Goddess of Wisdom and... | |
 | Anne Ferry - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 332 pages
...of the four-line closing of the invocation. Here "I" is linked with the first mention also of "me": And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crue To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free.20 Since the lines following... | |
 | Marvin Rubinstein, Marv Rubinstein - American wit and humor - 2000 - 259 pages
...unused titles, I should like to leave my readers with the following quotation: Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. Come...and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. John Milton, _L 'Allegro The Author, the Editor and the Publisher all hope that this book has given... | |
 | Donald Burrows, Rosemary Dunhill, James Harris - Music - 2002 - 1268 pages
...dwell. But haste Thee, Mirth, & bring with Thee The mouutain Nymp[h], Sweet Liberty. Recit: by the boy And if I give thee Honour due, Mirth admit me of thy Crew. Song by the Boy Mirth admit me of thy Crew, To live with Her & live with Thee, In unreproved pleasures... | |
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