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" Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore... "
Select British Classics - Page 343
1803
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Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton: The Minor ..., Volume 2, Part 3

Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - Poetry - 1970 - 434 pages
...with materials for illustration. ßut œm thou Goddess fair and free> In Heav'n ycleap'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus...two sister Graces more To Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore ; Or whether (as som Sager sing) The frolick Wind that breathes the Spring, Zephir with Aurora playing,...
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The Faun in the Garden: Michelangelo and the Poetic Origins of Italian ...

Art - 206 pages
...Mirth's origins. After describing Melancholy, at "blackest midnight born," the poet sings of the birth of "heart-easing" Mirth, "Whom lovely Venus at a birth...sister Graces more / To Ivycrowned Bacchus bore." But, he adds, there is another version of the story of Mirth: "The frolick Wind that breathes the Spring...
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The Emigrants

Gilbert Imlay - Fiction - 1998 - 372 pages
...Milton has said in a pleasant strain, "Come thou Goddess fair and free In heaven y'dep'd Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing mirth, Whom lovely Venus at...ivy-crowned Bacchus bore. Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity." 4 I know how difficult it is to be cheerful when the heart is ill...
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Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter

Ronald Paulson - History - 1998 - 292 pages
...Waller's "The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning" and Horace's Odes 2, 8, 12., and, for Mirth, Milton's "heart-easing Mirth, / Whom lovely Venus at a birth...Sister Graces more / To Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore" in "L'Allegro" (11. I3ff.). With this female figure of Comedy, Addison begins to anticipate the connections...
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Music and Theatre in Handel's World: The Family Papers of James Harris, 1732 ...

Donald Burrows, Rosemary Dunhill, James Harris - Music - 2002 - 1268 pages
...Penseroso, 5 January 1739 Song by the Boy But come Thou Goddess, fair & free, In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne; And by men, Heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus...two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore. Recit: Beard. Accomp: Or whether (as some Sages sing) The frolick wind, that breathes the Spring, Zephyr...
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The Major Works

John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Cimmerian desert ever dwell.0 10 But come thou goddess fair and free, In heaven yclept Euphrosyne,0 And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus...two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore; Or whether (as some sager sing)0 The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Zephyr with Aurora playing,0...
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Complete Poems and Major Prose

John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...Zephyr's courtship of than Cimmeria" was proverbial. Spring, mother of the flowers, in his mask of ChloAnd by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more 15 To Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore; Or whether (as some Sager sing) The frolic Wind that breathes the Spring,...
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