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
| 1846 - 436 pages
...sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tanned haycock in the mead, 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 checkered shade ; And young and old come... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead, 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... | |
| 1847 - 312 pages
...practice in this branch of elocution. Example. EURAL HOLIDAY. — Milton, " Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade, When young and old come forth... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...the sheaves, Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, 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 forth... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 154 pages
...sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, Ta the tann'd haycock in the mead. 1 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 chequer'd shade; And young and old come... | |
| 1848 - 310 pages
...practice in this branch of elocution. Example. RURAL HOLIDAY. — Milton. " Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rehecs sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade, When young and old come... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...practice in this branch of elocution. Example. RURAL HOLIDAY. — Milton. " Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade, When young and old come forth... | |
| William Russell - 1849 - 320 pages
...practice in this branch of elocution. Example. RURAL HOLIDAY. — Milton. " Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade, When young and old come forth... | |
| Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...the mead. Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosurei of neighb'ring eyes. Sqmetimes with secure 3 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 checker'd shade; And young and old come... | |
| 1876 - 396 pages
...certain lines in one of Milton's most beautiful poems, which run thus : — " 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." Now, how many of our... | |
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