My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the... Comus, a Mask - Page iby John Milton - 1797 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...enters. This way the noise was, if mine ear be true, 1 7O My best guide now ; methought it was the sound fe, in it-, loth To meet the rudeness, and swill'd insolence, Of such late wassailers ; yet, O ! where else Shall... | |
| English literature - 1838
...erred in the application of their thanksofferings, " When, for their teeming flocks and granges fuTI, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss," — the fettling of gratitude and joy which incited them is one well worthy of encouragement and imitation.... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...noise was, if mine ear be true, My best guide now. Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe,...bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss. I should be loth To meet the rudeness, and swill'd insolence, Of such late wassailers : yet O ! where else Shall... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...noise was, if mine ear be true, My best guide now : Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute or gamesome pipe Stirs up among the loose unlctter'd hinds ; When for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1823 - 400 pages
...the term in the following beautiful passage : — Mcthought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute or gamesome pipe Stirs up among the louse unlettered hinds, When for their teeming flocks, and granges fall, In wanton dance they praise... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...noise was, if mine ear be true, My best guide now ; methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed ll not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau, If birds confabulate or no ; 'Tie l'an, And thank the Gods amiss. 1 should be loth To meet the rudeness and swill'd insolence Of such... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...Froissart, p. ii. ch. 249. T. Warton. My best guide now; methought it was the sound Of riot and ill manag'd merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe...hinds, When for their teeming flocks, and granges full, 175 In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the Gods amiss. I should be loath To meet... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...enters. This way the noise was, if mine ear be true, 170 My best guide now ; methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-manag'd merriment, Such as the jocund...gamesome pipe Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, 174 When for their teeming flocks and granges full, In wr,nton dance they praise the bounteous Pan... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...noise was, if mine ear be true, My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe,...,Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds ; When from their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank... | |
| Hugh Owen - Shrewsbury (England) - 1825 - 650 pages
...both bands united, which, breaking the stillness of eventide, would remind the contemplative mind of " merriment, Such as the jocund flute or gamesome pipe...full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan*." In the south-eastern corner of Shropshire the ceremony is performed with a slight variation. The last... | |
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