DANCING

Related Subjects: Amusement, Feast, Jazz, Joy, Merriment, Music

1. On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
   No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
   To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.—BYRON, Childe Harold
   

2. Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine
   (Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine),
   Long be thine import from all duty free,
   And hock itself be less esteem'd than thee.—BYRON, The Waltz
   

3. Endearing Waltz—to thy more melting tune
   Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon,
   Scotch reels, avaunt ! and country-dance forego
   Your future claims to each fantastic toe!
   Waltz—Waltz alone—both legs and arms demands,
   Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands.—BYRON, The Waltz
   

4. Hot from the hands promiscuously applied,
   Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side.—BYRON, The Waltz

5. Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere trans­lation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.—HAVELOCK ELLIS, The Dance of Life
   

6. To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet.—THOMAS GRAY, Progress of Poesy
   

7. And the dancing has begun now,
   And the dancers whirl round gaily
   In the waltz's giddy mazes,
   And the ground beneath them trembles.—HEINE, Book of Songs
   

8. Deborah danced, when she was two,
   As buttercups and daffodils do.—MRS. JOYCE KILMER, Experience
   

9. Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances
   Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows;
   Old folk and young together, and children mingled among them.—LONGFELLOW, Evangeline
   

10. My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawn,
    Shall with their goat feet dance the antic hay.—CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Edward II
    

11. Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
    In a light fantastic round.—MILTON, Comus
    

12. Come and trip it as ye go,
    On the light fantastic toe.—MILTON, L'Allegro
    

13. Dancing in the chequer'd shade.—MILTON, L'Allegro
    

14. Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education: dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?—NIETZSCHE, The Twilight of the Idols
    

15. Others import yet nobler arts from France,
    Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.—POPE, Dunciad
    

16. When you go to dance, take heed whom you take by the hand.—Proverb
    

17. They have measured many a mile,
    To tread a measure with you on this grass.—SHAKESPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost
    

18. He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
    To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

19. For you and I are past our dancing days.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

20. Come unto these yellow sands,
    And then take hands:
    Courtsied when you have, and kiss'd
    The wild waves whist.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

21. When you do dance, I wish you
    A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
    Nothing but that.—SHAKESPEARE, The Winter's Tale

22. It is no small thing to have played for mankind to dance.—RICHARD SPECHT, of Johann Strauss