| John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...To the tann'd haycock in the mead. 90 Sometimes with secure delight The up-land hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, 9 5 Dancing in the chequer 'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holy-day, Till... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 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 sunshine holiday, Till the live-long day-light... | |
| George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...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... | |
| Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...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 checker'd shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. t . .' ..' . "At other... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1803 - 572 pages
...appears to have been acquainted with it ia Italy, where it has the riaras of rlbecca. ' When ' When the jocund rebecks sound, To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checktr'd shade. L'ALLEGSO. ' The women are tall, handsome, and well made, and the easy degance of... | |
| William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...tann'd hay-cock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When ihe merry bells ring round , And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth , and many a :uuul r Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday... | |
| E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry hells ring round; And the jocund rehecs 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... | |
| Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 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 day-light... | |
| John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 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 day-light... | |
| English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...the tann'tl 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 sunshine holiday, Till the live-long day-light... | |
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