 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...  Parnassus - Pàgina 4editat per - 1875 - 534 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Mackay - 1851 - 332 pàgines
...span is long, The swan's near death, — man's life is done ! HASTE THEE, NYMPH. JOHB M i I.YII-, . HASTE thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful...sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Ha ! ha ! ha ! ha ! The music of this song was composed by Handel for the Oratorio... | |
 | Edward Copleston, William James Copleston - 1851 - 374 pàgines
...debonair' nymph, in all the minuteness of a German dramatis personae, or a rope-dancer's hand-bill : — Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful...: Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. The author, to prove himself worthy of being admitted of the crew, skips and... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 pàgines
...sympathy for the very foibles it laughs at. And who would proscribe mirth from social intercourse, with " Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton...sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides ! " more we habitually feel of the gravity and sadness of life, the more perhaps... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pàgines
...playing, As he met her once a- May ing, There, on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee, a daughter fair, So...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... | |
 | 1852 - 374 pàgines
...debonair' nymph, in all the minuteness of a German dramatis personse, or a rope-dancer's hand-bill :"— " Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful...: Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. " The author, to prove himself worthy of being admitted of the crew, skips... | |
 | Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pàgines
...also show how admirably he could make the measure the vehicle either of the gay or the grave: — " Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee, Jest, and...; Sport that wrinkled care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides." So speaks the poet to Euphrosyne; and now he addresses " divinest Melancholy":... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pàgines
...he met her once a Maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, 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... | |
 | Spectator The - 1853 - 566 pàgines
...heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth, With two-sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore; Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful...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;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pàgines
...Aurora playing, As he met her once a-maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh blown-roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair, So buxom,...becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's check, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both... | |
 | 1854 - 630 pàgines
...heart-easing mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a hirth With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore. Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful...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... | |
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