 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with fecure delight The upland hamlets will invke When the merry bells ring round, And the jocond rebecks...found To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd fhade; And young and old come forth- to play On a funfhine holy day, Till the live long day... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...bind the 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 merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs found To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd fiiade ; And young and... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 582 pages
...fhriek'd, ftarted up, and fhriek'd again. Anonym. (;«) Let the merry bells ring round", And the jocund rebecks found, To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd fhade. Milton's Allegro. See alfo Graysi Progrefs of Poefy, Stanza 3. ftrengt&f Ch. II. AND... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1779 - 536 pages
...the fong itfelf imitative. Thus, in that fong, " Let the merry bells ring round, «* And the jocund rebecks found, " To many '* a youth and many a maid, '" Dancing in the •* chequer'd fhade," — he makes the voice in the beginning imitate the found of a chime of bells,... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...bind the fheaves ; Or if the earlier feafon lead To the tann'd haycock ia the mead. Sometimes with fecure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs found To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd ihade: 0.3 And young... | |
 | John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...sheaves; Or if the earlier season lead 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... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1785 - 460 pages
...bind the fheaves ; Or if the earlier feafon lead To the tann'd hay-cock in the mead. Sometimes with fecure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks found To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd fhade ; . And young... | |
 | John Walter - 1785 - 258 pages
...fecure delight The upland hamlet will invite, When the merry bells ring round, ' i\ And the jocund rebecks found . .. To many a youth and many a maid, . Dancing in the chequer'd fhade ; « And young and old come forth to play. On a funfhine holiday, Till the live-long... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1788 - 628 pages
...sheaves ;. . Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. . 90 Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocond rebecs sound To many a youth, and many a maid, . . gf Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; . And young... | |
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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,... 
