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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 chequer'd shade... "
The works of John Milton in verse and prose, with a life of the author by J ... - Page 114
by John Milton - 1851
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added, Samson ...

John Milton - 1759 - 420 pages
...to bind the fheaves; Or if the earlier feafon lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. go Sometimes with fecure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocond rebecs found To many a youth, and many a maid, 95 Dancing in the chequer'd made; ; And young and old...
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The canary bird or, Gentlemen and lady's polite amusement

Canary bird - 1760 - 362 pages
...SONG 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,...
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The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of ...

Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...TbeflyUi to bind the fheaves; Or if the earlier feafon lead To thetann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with fecure delight ,' The upland hamlets will .invite...a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd lhade; And young and old come forth to play On a funfhine holy-day, Till the live- long day-light fail...
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The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of ...

John Newbery - 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...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 light fail...
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The Beauties of English Poesy, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 288 pages
...to bind the fheaves ; 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 fbund To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd fhade ; And young and...
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Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to ..., Volume 2

James Beattie - 1776 - 582 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 chcquer'd (hade," — he makes the voice in the beginning imitate the found of a chime of bells, and...
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 42

Tobias Smollett - 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...
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The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and ..., Volumes 3-5

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 890 pages
...to bind the fheaves; Or if the earlier feafon lead To the tann'd haycock in the mead. 9o Sometimes with fecure delight The upland hamlets 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 old...
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Essays: On Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and ...

James Beattie - 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, and in the end...
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Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue: And ...

1780 - 226 pages
...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 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...
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