| English poetry - English poetry - 1809 - 302 pages
...Phillis dresses ; And then in haste her bower she leaves, Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tan'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight,...And young and old come forth to play On a sun-shine holyday, 'Till the live-long day-light fail : Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of... | |
| British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...bow'r she leaves. With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or if the earlier season lead To the taun'il haycock in the mead, Sometimes with secure delight...invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebeis sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 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...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 Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 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...jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, And young and old come forth to play On a sun-shine holy-day, Till the live-long day-light fail: Then... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the meat). Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will...jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, And young and old come forth to play On a sun-shine holy-day, Till the live-long day-light fail: Then... | |
| John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...bow'r she leaves,. With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd hay-cock in the mead.. Sometimes with secure delight...When the merry bells ring round, . And the jocund rebecs sound To many a youth and many a maid,. Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...chcquerM shade ; •And young and old come forth to play On a sun-shine holy-day. Till the live-Ion^ day-light fail : . Then to the spicy nut-brown ale,...told of many a feat. How fairy Mab the junkets eat ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she sed, And by the friar's l.inthorn led ; Tells how the drudging goblin... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ringtound, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many...chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to piny On a sunshine holiday. Till the lire-long day-light fail ; Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With... | |
| 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;... | |
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