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, Till... The Works of the British Poets - Page 151by Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1157 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Milton - 1707 - 480 pages
...Sheaves -^ Or if the earlier Seafon lead To the tann'd Haycock in the Mead, • Sometimes with fecure delight . .- "•" • The up-land Hamlets will invite,...the merry Bells ring round,- ; •<-*•. And the jocond rebecks found To many a Youth, and many a Maid, Dancing in the Chequer'd made } And young and... | |
| Miscellany poems - 1716 - 426 pages
...Sheaves; • Or if the earlier feafon lead To the tann'd Haycock in the Mead, Sometimes wjth fecure delight The up-land Hamlets will invite, When the merry Bells ring round, And the jocond rebecks found To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the Chequer' d (hade ; And young... | |
| English poetry - 1744 - 198 pages
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| John Milton - 1747 - 180 pages
...fecure delight The up-land Hamlets will invite, When the merry Bells ring round, And the jocond rebecks found To many a Youth, and many a Maid, Dancing in...(hade ; And young and old: come forth to play On a Sunflune Holy-day, Till the live-long day-light fail: Then to the fpicy nut-brown Ale, With ftories... | |
| Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...the fheaves; Or if the earlier feafon lead To thetann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with fecure delight ,' The upland hamlets will .invite When the merry bells ring round, And the jocond rebecks found' To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd lhade; And young and... | |
| 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...a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd fiiade ; And young and old come forth to p!ay On a fun-mine holy-day, Till the live-long day-light... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 288 pages
...fheaves ; 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 fbund To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd fhade ; And young and old come forth... | |
| Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 510 pages
...greater or a lefs number of fyllables is made to fuit the time. Take the following example from Milton, ' When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs...found To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the checker'd fhade. in this pafiage the third line, though confiding of ten fyJIables, is, by means of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 334 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 jocond rebees found To many a youth, and many a maid, 95 Dancing in the chequer'd made ; And young... | |
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