 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1850 - 910 pages
...it is KoptiaiaKbiTifiov ')> but as this is only an analogy, we appeal to Milton, who in writing, ' Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe,' certainly thought he was using a tripping metre. To us it appears that the English anapaests may be... | |
 | J. D. Bell - Conduct of life - 1850 - 488 pages
...love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe." It can hardly he doubted that wit may be appropriately employed even in the pulpit. With great effect,... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...to live in dimples sleek ; Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty ; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Marvin Rubinstein, Marv Rubinstein - American wit and humor - 2000 - 259 pages
...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... | |
 | Roy C. Flannagan - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 144 pages
...a verse in Milton's L'Allegro that may have inspired Morris to craft this highly innovative dance: "Come, and trip it as you go, on the light fantastic toe." His dancers can trip the light fantastic with the best of them, as was amply proved in the opening... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...sleek; 30 Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe, And in thy right hand lead with thee, 35 The Mountain Nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To... | |
 | Jane Austen - Fiction - 2005 - 844 pages
...poet addresses the 'Nymph', who has 'wanton Wiles/ Nods and Becks, and wreathed Smiles' (lines 27-8): Come and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe; (lines 33-4) Mrs Elton (mis)quotes another familiar tag from the poem in E (vol. 2, ch. 18). 1 1 the... | |
 | Aubrey Burl - Social Science - 2005 - 310 pages
...of the belief that the stones are the petrified bodies of girls punished for dancing on the Sabbath. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe. L'Allegrtt, John Milton Barnatt, 1982, 174-7; TTB, 82, Plan 14 WENDRON, Land's End (3) [SI/10. Nine... | |
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