 | William Dowling - Literary landmarks - 1857 - 412 pages
...Goddess fair and free, In Heav'n 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 sages sing) The frolic wind, that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing,... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1859 - 104 pages
...goddess fair and free, In heaven 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 sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing,... | |
 | John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...goddess, fair and free, In heav'n 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. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee, Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...Goddess fair and free, In heaven 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 sager sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring Zephyr, with Aurora playing,... | |
 | John Antrobus (essayist.) - 1862 - 150 pages
...Goddess, fair and free, In Heaven ycleped Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore. Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Sport that wrinkled Care derides,... | |
 | John Milton, John Hunter - 1864 - 110 pages
...goddess fair and free, In heaven yclept 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison, P.P. - London. - Spectator, 1711-14 - English essays - 1864 - 344 pages
...goddess fair and free, In heaven 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 sages sing) The frolic wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr, with Aurora playing,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...Goddess fair and free, In heaven 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 sager sing) The frolic Wind that breathes the spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing,... | |
 | Arthur S. P. Woodhouse, Douglas Bush - Poetry - 1970 - 434 pages
...Goddess fair and free> In Heav'n ycleap'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 som Sager sing) The frolick Wind that breathes the Spring, Zephir with Aurora playing,... | |
 | Art - 206 pages
...at "blackest midnight born," the poet sings of the birth of "heart-easing" Mirth, "Whom lovely Venus at a birth / With two sister Graces more / To Ivycrowned Bacchus bore." But, he adds, there is another version of the story of Mirth: "The frolick Wind that breathes the Spring... | |
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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... 
