...the light fantastic toe ; And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty ; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of...and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free." The words "unreproved pleasures," ie " innocent pleasures," explain the only limit Milton here sets...

...and Prose of William Blake, p. 682, give these lines of the poem as the subject of the illustration: To hear the Lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull Night From his Watch Tower in the Skies Fill the dappled Dawn does rise. They are 11. 4 1-44, in The Works of John...

...occasional looseness mL' Allegro may be indicated by the sharp debate27 that has arisen over these lines: To hear the Lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-towre in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to com in spight of sorrow. And at...

...away! Admittedly some of the words are hard, but there is no doubting the enthusiasm and the delight. To hear the lark begin his flight And, singing, startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. JOHN MILTON Dappled dawn . . . what a lovely...

...have done it. The beguiling "L'Allegro" trips into grammatical confusion: And if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her,...flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come in spite of sorrow And at rny...

...The Mountain Nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crue To Jive with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free; To hear the Lark begin his fight, And singing flartle we dull night, From his watch'towre in the skies, Till the dappled dawn...

...liberation: And in thy right hand lead with thee, The Mountain Nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free. (11. 35-40) 11 Such easy pleasure not only echoes Marlovian eroticism but also anticipates the artistic...

...fantastic toe, And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. 7513 'L'Allegro' VՋ SE O 5ͦ N20 X |jȣH e Ŷ Bc % H cZ) ^ K Q 7514 'L'Allegro' While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack,...

...vergegenwärtigen, wenn er ausmalt, wie ein Tag beginnt, der von Euphrosyne beherrscht wird ("L'Allegro" 41-56): To hear the Lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-towre in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come in spight of sorrow, And at...

...Milton's L'Allegro as a radiant angel rising into the dark sky, in illustration of Milton's lines: To hear the Lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull Night From his Watch Tower in the Skies Till the dappled Dawn does rise.155 The twenty-eighth Lark can also be associated...