...live in dimple sleek , Sport, that wrinkled Care deiides, And .Laughter, holding both his sidea — 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. Examples ; the Bar to be...

...to live in dimples sleek ; Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, 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 ; And if I give thee honour...

...patterns between the extremes of "Come pensive Nun, devout and pure, / Sober, steadfast, and demure" and "Come, and trip it as you go / On the light fantastic toe" was widely acknowledged as a metrical tour de force defining the inherent virtues of the form. The...

...vistoria: victory! Tripping on light fantastic toe: alluding to Milton's 'L' Allegro' (I645), ll. 33-4: 'Come, and trip it as you go / On the light fantastic toe'. II i Don Devil: italics indicate quotation of Belfield's speech above, p. I09. Goddess of Wisdom and...

...with the following quotation: Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. Come and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe. John Milton, _L 'Allegro The Author, the Editor and the Publisher all hope that this book has given...

...a verse in Milton's L'Allegro that may have inspired Morris to craft this highly innovative dance: "Come, and trip it as you go, on the light fantastic toe." His dancers can trip the light fantastic with the best of them, as was amply proved in the opening...

...of the belief that the stones are the petrified bodies of girls punished for dancing on the Sabbath. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe. L'Allegrtt, John Milton Barnatt, 1982, 174-7; TTB, 82, Plan 14 WENDRON, Land's End (3) [SI/10. Nine...

...poet addresses the 'Nymph', who has 'wanton Wiles/ Nods and Becks, and wreathed Smiles' (lines 27-8): Come and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe; (lines 33-4) Mrs Elton (mis)quotes another familiar tag from the poem in E (vol. 2, ch. 18). 1 1 the...

...dancing, a whirl or spin on one foot. 3. Dancing. See John Milton's classic lyric poem "L'Allegro" (1645): "Come, and trip it, as you go / On the light fantastic toe." Chapter XXIV i. Inflammation of the brain. Chapter XXV 1. A structure often built over a stream to...