 | Canary bird - 1760 - 362 pages
...CLXXIV. In L' Allegro Penferofo. By Mr. HANDEL. OR let the merry bells ring roand, And the jocund Rebecks found, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checquer'd made. SONG CLXXV. • Set by Mr. BERG. Sung at Ranelagh. MY Kitty cries, was Damon wife,... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...her bow'r fhe leaves, With TbeflyUi to bind the fheaves; Or if the earlier feafon lead To thetann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with fecure delight...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... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...neat-handed PMlit drefles ; And then in hafte her bow'r fhe leaves, With Tbeftylis to bind the fheaves ; Or if the earlier feafon lead To the tann'd haycock...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,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English poetry - 1767 - 294 pages
...handed Phillis drefles ; And then, in hafte, her bow'r (he leaves, With Theftylis to bind the lheaves ; Or, if the earlier feafon lead, To the tann'd haycock...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
...handed Phillis drefies ; And then, in hafte, her bow'r fhe leaves, With Theftylis to bind the fheaves ; Or, if the earlier feafon lead, To the tann'd haycock...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... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 582 pages
...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 chcquer'd (hade," — he makes the voice in the beginning imitate the found of a chime of bells, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 320 pages
...Theftylis to bind the fheaves; Or if the earlier feafon lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. je Sometimes with fecure delight The upland hamle.ts...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 and... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1779 - 536 pages
...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, and in the end the motion... | |
 | Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...leaves, With Theftylis to bind the fheaves ; Or if the earlier feafon lead To the tann'd haycock ia the mead. Sometimes with fecure delight The upland...a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd ihade: 0.3 And young and old come forth to play On a funfhine holy-day, Till the live-long daylight... | |
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