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" 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... "
Allegro und Penseroso - Page 8
by John Milton - 1782 - 31 pages
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...tlice, nymuh, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nous, 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 both his sides: Come, and trip it as you...
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Miscellaneous Poems ; Paradise Regain'd ; & Samson Agonistes

John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...with thee a daughter fair, So bucksom, blith, and debonair. Hasle thee nymph, and bring with tbee Jesl and youthful jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton...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...
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The Passion of Meter: A Study of Wordsworth's Metrical Art

Brennan O'Donnell - 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...
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Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance ...

Peter C. Herman - 1996 - 294 pages
...embracing everything the Muse-haters despise about poetry and poets: Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton...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...
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Cecilia, Or, Memoirs of an Heiress

Fanny Burney - 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...
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The Romance of the Forest

Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1999 - 436 pages
...associated with perpetual youth. This reference to her implicitly invokes Milton's 'L'Allegro', lines 28-30. Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek. 'That might . . . scann'd': unidentified. 33 epigraph: As You Like It, II. i. 3-7. 35 To the Visions...
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Net-Wit.Com: A Smorgasbord of E-Mail and Internet Wit Blended with Humorous ...

Marvin Rubinstein, Marv Rubinstein - 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...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...is also sixth of the counted asteroids. Milton, in L 'Allegro, summons Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheeks, Sport, that wrinkled care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Shakespeare, in Antony...
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John Milton: A Short Introduction

Roy C. Flannagan - 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...
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Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...with thee a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee 25 Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton...on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; 30 Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go...
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