 | Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or if the earlier season lead, To the tinni'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight...And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holy-day, Till the live-long daylight foil ; Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...accords aptly with the context, which is then descriptive of the same rustic revelry us in L' Allegro : " When the merry Bells ring round, " And the jocund...and many a maid, " Dancing in the chequer'd shade." P. 93. The Rebeck seems (as Warton there remarked) to have been almost a common name for a fiddle;... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...her bower she leaves. With ThestyHs to bind the sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tan'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight,...invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checquer'd shade ; And young and old... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. C rologue, yet using sometimes, in case of self-defence,...what among us passes for best, thus much before-hand faery Mab the junkets eat ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she sed ; And he, by friars lantern led, Tells... | |
 | Peter Irving - Italy - 1820 - 288 pages
...not be compelled to hate them ; for that sentiment exceeded the measure of her strength. CHAPTER V. When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade. L'ALLEGBO. THERE is something dreary in the situation of Trieste, that would excite... | |
 | International peace society - 232 pages
...beneath her olive crown. Welcome to Britain's land ; Welcome with heart and hand : Welcome to all ! When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing on the checkered shade." And as if all these demonstrations on earth in favour of Peace, had not been... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight...youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; " "oung and old come forth to play •"•ine holy-day, '•d,ay-light fail : " *»rown ale, - feat,... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in. the...And young and old come forth to play On a sun-shine holy-day, Till the live-long day-light fail: Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...bow'r she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight,...stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets ate ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging... | |
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Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail... 
