 | Charles Kingsley - Theater - 1859 - 506 pages
...and questionable, and tries the court poets at their own weapons, — " Or whether, (as some sages sing,) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr...once a-maying, There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blowu roses washed in dew " but why quote what all the world knows ? — Where shall we find... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...The frolic wind, that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, Jls 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, 50 buxom, blithe and debonair. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with tnee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether (as...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,... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1861 - 734 pages
...Euphrosyne, And by Men, heart-easing Mirth; ^ Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces 2 more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore : Or whether (as...with Aurora playing, As he met her Once a-Maying; 20 There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, Fill'd her with thee a daughter... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...yclep'd Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore; Or whether (as some...There on beds of violets blue, And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe and debonair. Haste thee, Nymph,... | |
 | David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen - English literature - 1992 - 428 pages
...As he seems, however, himself inclined to the latter of the two, we will even suppose it so to be. Or whether (as some sager sing) The frolic wind that...spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing. As he met her once a Maying; There on beds of violets blue. And fresh-blown roses wash'd in dew, &c. Some dull people... | |
 | Raymond W. Bernard - 1994 - 136 pages
...desperem fieri sin conjuge mater, Et parere ibtacto modo castra, viro? Ovid. Fast. 5. Or as other authors sing, "The frolic wind that breathes the spring Zephyr with Aurora playing As he met her once a maying Fill'd her with thee a daughter fair So buxom blithe and debonnair. Milton's Allegre. Gentlemen... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...complicating any easy distinction between the two figures. She too was conceived through illicit sexuality ("The frolic Wind that breathes the Spring, / Zephyr...with Aurora playing / As he met her once a-Maying" [11. 18-20]), and both are conceived in nature. Zephyr coupled with Aurora "on beds of Violets blue,... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 688 pages
...fossum. fossa, fosse, fossette, fossil, fossorial. bothrium; cyclobothra. Gc, bed, first, in a garden. The frolic Wind that breathes the Spring, Zephyr,...There on beds of violets blue And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. . . . — Milton,... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...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...with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying, 20 There on Beds of Violets blue, And fresh-blown Roses washt in dew, Fill'd her with thee a daughter... | |
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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 ; Or whether — as some sager sing — The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing As he met her... 
