...strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half regained Eurydice. — 150 These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth ! with thee I mean to live. IL PENSEROSO. HENCE vain deluding Joys! The brood of Folly without father bred ; How little you bestead,...

...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. 145 150 141. Wanton heed, $<:.] The antithesis between the noun and adjective, in this phrase and the...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...