 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...Ta the tann'd haycock in the mead. 1 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 sunshine holy-day, Till the live-long daylight... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...beautiful poems, which run thus : — " Sometimes with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...youth and many a maid Dancing in the chequered shade." Now, how many of our young friends know : the meaning of the word " rebecks " in the fourth line ?... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...The Cynosurei of neighb'ring eyes. Sqmetimes with secure 3 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. Tower'd cities please... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1849 - 472 pages
...time. Take the following example from Milton : " When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the checker'd shade."* In this passage the third line, though consisting of ten syllables, is, by means... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade, When young and old come forth to play, On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade, When young and old come forth to play, On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...lead To the tuaned haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, And the jocund rebecks sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday ; Till the live-long daylight fail; Then... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs 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 sunshine holiday, Till the live-long daylight... | |
 | Religion - 1850 - 454 pages
...secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the iocund rebecs sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequerM shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a -tin shine holiday, Till the live-long day... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pages
...the traveller goes to the upland hamlets, " When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecksf sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade ; And young and old come forth to play, On a sun-shine holy-day." When evening comes, " the cheerful... | |
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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 chequered shade... 
