 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1847 - 388 pages
..." Before the swallow dares, And takes the wings of March with beauty." SHAKSFERR. GREENWICH PARK. " 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." MILTON'S " L'AT,LKGHO."... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...round, CYCLOPEDIA OF то 1689. To many a youth and many а muid, Dancing in the chequcr'd shadii ; nut-brunn ale, With stories tuld of many a fc-ut, How Fairy Mab the junkuts eat ; She was pinch'd,... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...Thestylis to bind the sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, Ta the tann'd haycock in the mead. 1 Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will...And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holy-day, Till the live-long daylight fail; • Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of... | |
 | Painting - 1849 - 766 pages
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 | English fiction - 1848 - 588 pages
...the fairies in hi& immortal verse : — • " Young and old come forth play, On a sunshine holyday, Till the live-long day-light fail : Then to the spicy...told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets eat; She was pinched and pulled, she said ; And he by friar's lantern led. Tells how the drudging goblin... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...picture reminds us of certain lines in one of Milton's most beautiful poems, which run thus : — " Sometimes with secure delight, The upland hamlets...sound To many a 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... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...the mead. Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosurei of neighb'ring eyes. Sqmetimes with secure 3 delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd o.it CYCLOPAEDIA OF To mnny a youth and many л maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and... | |
 | Henry Christmas - Occultism - 1849 - 414 pages
...belief in these matters, when, speaking of their evening's amusements, he beautifully says : — " Till the live-long daylight fail, Then to the spicy...stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets ate. She was pinched and pulled, she said, And he by friar's lanthorn led. Tell how the drudging goblin... | |
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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... 
