 | English poems - 1863 - 364 ページ
...Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. THOUGHTS IN A GARDEN. BY ANDREW MARYEL. [ANDREW MARYEL was lx1rn at Hull, in 1620, and was educated... | |
 | John Milton, John Hunter - 1864 - 110 ページ
...Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. US 150 141. Wanton heed, <fu.] The antithesis between the noun and adjective, in this phrase and the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 ページ
...Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. 129. FROM IL PENSEROSO. Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, stedfast, and demure, All in a robe... | |
 | Stanley Fish - 1980 - 412 ページ
...the experience they give; and because they so mean, the conditionals with which they end are false: These delights if thou canst give, Mirth with thee I mean to live. (151-152) These pleasures Melancholy give, And I with thee will choose to live. (175-176) These conditionals... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 ページ
...That echo of "Come live with me" is phrased more positively than the closing couplet of L' Allegro: These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth with thee, I mean to live. Yet the echo reminds us that either choice involves a limitation. Thus the two poems move from youth... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1986 - 260 ページ
...that Melancholy can and does give these pleasures. And the same, of course, applies to Mirth in L'Al: These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth with thee, I mean to live. (151-52) The foregoing discussion has already suggested some of the major lines of interpretation.... | |
 | Christopher Anstey, Peter Wagner - 236 ページ
...toe." p. 77 Bath, at thee I choose to live: Cf. the last two lines with Milton's L' Allegro, v. 151-52. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. Anstey thus depicts Jenny as a romantic would-be poet living in the imaginary world of Shakespeare's... | |
 | Martha Finley - 1993 - 330 ページ
...play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me.'* — SHAKESPEARE'S Henry Eighth, 'These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live." — MILTON'S L' Allegro, THE young party at Roselandr, had now grown so large — several additions... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1993 - 340 ページ
...Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regain'd Eurydice. These delights if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee I mean to live. (lines 143-51) 'These delights' have by the poem's end become quite clearly defined as the delights... | |
 | S. K. Heninger - 1994 - 228 ページ
...pleasures free. l37-401 Repeating the allusion at the end of his performance, the happv man concludes: These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth with thee I mean to live. l151-521 Not to be outdone, and providing exact romplementarity, the pensive man at the end of his... | |
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... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus... 
