 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...lheaves ; Or, if the earlier feafon lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with fecure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs found To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd fiiade ; And young and old come forth... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...the fheaves ; Or if the earlier feafon lead To the tann'd haycock ia the mead. Sometimes with fecure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs found To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd ihade: 0.3 And young and old come... | |
 | John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...herbs, and other country messes, 85 Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses; And then in haste her bow'r she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. 90 Sometimes with secure delight The up-land hamlets will invite, When... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...Are at their savory dinner set Of herbs, and other country messes, 85 Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses ; And then in haste her bower she leaves,...sheaves ;. . Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. . 90 Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1789 - 484 pages
...the f heaves; Or if the earlier feafon lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead, Sometimes with fecure delight The upland hamlets will invite, / When the m.erry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs found To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd fhade; And young and old come forth... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...fheaves; Or if the earlier feafon lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. 90 Sometimes with fecure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs found To many a youth, and many a maid, 95 Dancing in the chequer'd fhade; And young and old come forth... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1790 - 346 pages
...fhe leaves, Or if the earlier fcafon lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead, Sometimes with fecure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs found To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd made; And young and old come forth... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1796 - 476 pages
...the (heaves; Or, if the earlier fcafon lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with iecure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs found To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer d (hade ; % And young and old come forth... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...Thyrsis met, Are at their savoury dinner set Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses; And then in haste her bower she leaves....the sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the... | |
 | George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...the time. Take the following example from Milton, Of vivacity as depending on the choice of words. 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... | |
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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, , And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday... 
