That is Milton ; but it is Milton also who can sing of — " 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,... Berenice: A Novel - Page 55by Emily Pierpont De Lesdernier - 1856 - 332 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1835 - 346 pages
...represents the nymph Euphrosyne tripping " on the light fantastic toe," and closely followed by her train of 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... | |
| 1835 - 254 pages
...represents the nymph Euphrosyne tripping " on the light fantastic toe," and closely followed by her train of 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... | |
| Emily Pierpont De Lesdernier - 1868 - 360 pages
...personal defects the theme of ridicule. My tawny skin, great eyes, and protuberant organs of causality, which she called "horns," seemed to make me lawful...jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles." This experience was not calculated to cure me of my sensitiveness.... | |
| Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 630 pages
...glowing spirits of a blooming woman ' So buxom, blithe, and debonair.' Further associations are those of ' 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,... | |
| 1890 - 438 pages
...circle of hawthorn blossoms and shady trees, tea was served on the greensward, amid an exuberant flow of " Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles ; Sport that wrinkled care derides, And laughter holding both his sides."... | |
| 1891 - 556 pages
...and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks. Shakespeare. CONCOMITANTS OF. Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and bocks, and wreathed smiles. Milton. EFPEOTS OP. Fun gives you a forcible hug, and shakes laughter... | |
| Beatrice Marshall - 1901 - 360 pages
...soured the life of the nation in later years. He was like the great Puritan poet, who sang in his youth of — ' Jest and youthful jollity — Quips and cranks and wanton wiles — Nods and becks and wreathed smiles,' and of — ' The high embossed roof, With antique pillars massy proof,... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - 1903 - 348 pages
...— " Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free." That is Milton ; but it is Milton also who can sing of — " 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... | |
| Samuel McChord Crothers - 1912 - 356 pages
...— " Pore as the naked heavens, majestic, free." That is Milton ; but it is Milton also who can sing of — " 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 lire in dimple sleek, Sport... | |
| William Lines Hubbard - 1908 - 392 pages
...by Mazzocchi and Marazzoli was performed in Florence, the poet Milton being present to applaud its Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks and wanton wiles, Nods and becks and wreathed smiles. One of- the most famous of these promoted intermezzi was Pergolesi's " La Serva Padrone," which for a century... | |
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