 | Jane Austen - 2005 - 844 páginas
...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... | |
 | Julia C. Collins - 2006 - 208 páginas
...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... | |
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Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe... 
