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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 holding... "
Handy-book of Literary Curiosities - Page 616
by William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1104 pages
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The Autobiography of John Britton, Parts 2-3

John Britton - 1849 - 394 pages
...rivalry, each has evinced an eagerness to keep " a-head " of others, by " Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles; Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides." where hearts are trumps, and where the brightest Wit is sure of having all...
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A Man

J. D. Bell - Conduct of life - 1850 - 486 pages
...come, thou goddess, fair and free, In Heaven, yclept Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing mirth. ***** Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee, Jest and youthful...jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreath'd smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport...
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Programmes of evening concerts

Marlborough coll, mus. soc - 1850 - 80 pages
..."L" Allegro." ............ Handel. The Chapel Choir. Solo — HH HELE, accompanied by the Orchestra. 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...
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The literary class book; or, Readings in English literature

Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...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...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 dimples sleek; Sport,...
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...And fresh blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. 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...
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The American Elocutionist: Comprising 'Lessons in Enunciation', 'Exercises ...

William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...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 ye go On the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand bring with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. 2. But, Oh ! how altered...
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The Original Rhythmical Grammar of the English Language

James Chapman - Elocution - 378 pages
...Mine honour is my life ; both grow in on* ; Take honour from me, and my life is gone. Shakespeare. 6. 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 Hebe1s cheek, Aud love to live in dimple sleek , Sport,...
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Philosophy Looks at the Arts: Contemporary Readings in Aesthetics

Joseph Margolis - Art - 1987 - 624 pages
..."unreproved" pleasure with Mirth. Second, the diction and rhythms are lighthearted: "Haste thee nymphs and bring with thee / Jest and youthful Jollity, / Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, / Nods, and Becks and Wreathed Smiles." (6) Another sort of example entirely is William Wordsworth's sentimental...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...JCP; LiTB; NoP; OAEL-1; OBEV; OBS; PPP; TEP; TrGrPo Milton POETRY QUOTATIONS L 'Allegro 20 Haste thce n's Masterpiece 4 Have you heard and becks, and wreathed smiles, (1. 25—28) 21 Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe....
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Squitter-wits and Muse-haters: Sidney, Spenser, Milton, and Renaissance ...

Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...of II Penseroso's rejection by 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 Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and Wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sort...
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