| David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...joyous movement of the ensuing verses is a particularly happy instance of representative harmony. Let the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade. There is a watery music in the following lines. Fountains ! and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious... | |
| David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 376 pages
...joyous movement of the ensuing verses is a particularly happy instance of representative harmony. Let the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade. There is a watery music in the following lines. Fountains ! and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checker'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holyday, Till the livelong daylight... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, ts wave, to him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart, As home he goes chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong day-light... | |
| Alfred Butler - 1841 - 310 pages
...extensive as the parish for the virtues useful in the farm house. CHAPTER III. And the jocund rebecs sound, To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade. MILTON. I'AtLEGRO. A CERTAIN set of liberal-minded people in honest old England, whose... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the checker'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holyday, Till the live-long daylight... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...the tann'd haycock in the mead. MILTON. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, t hand ; your head I him appoint ; And by myself have sworn, to him shall bow All knees in Heaven, chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Tilt the livelong day-light... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...i-imi'il haycock in the mead. MILTON. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong day-light... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - Marriage - 1843 - 554 pages
...golden binges turuing." And again, — " When the merry bells ring round, " And the jocund rebecka sound. "To many a youth, and many a maid "Dancing in the chequer'd shade." " Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow "Melodious murmure, warbling, tune his... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 110 pages
...lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sun- shine holiday, Till the Jive-long... | |
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