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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... "
The Philosophy of Rhetoric - Page 202
by George Campbell - 1801
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 42

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 510 pages
...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 two anapefls,...
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Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards:: Preserved, by Tradition ...

Edward Jones - Bards and bardism - 1794 - 208 pages
...the preceding pages 33 and 85. " When the merry bells ring round, " And the jocund Rebecks found, " To many a youth and many a maid,* " Dancing in the checker'd ihade." The Ptb-gorn ', or Hornpipe, is fo called, becaufe both extremities are made of horn. In blowing,...
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Comus: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of ...

John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...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 forth to play On. a sunshine holiday, Till the live-long day-light...
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Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...the day. ':-.''..».!. . „. f " Sometimes with secure delight. The upland hamlets will invite; . . When the merry bells ring round. And the jocund rebecs...youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checker'd shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. t . .' ..' . "At other times I walk to...
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The Bardic Museum, of Primitive British Literature; and Other Admirable ...

Edward Jones - Bardes (Poètes) - 1802 - 142 pages
...aflêmblcd, thither ev'ry fwain."— " When the merry bells ring round, " And the jocund Rebecks found, *' To many a youth and many a maid. " Dancing in the checker'd lhade." Milton. The Dignity of ftyle, the Originality, the Simplicity, and the Variety difplayed in...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1803 - 572 pages
...been acquainted with it ia Italy, where it has the riaras of rlbecca. ' When ' When the jocund rebecks sound, To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checktr'd shade. L'ALLEGSO. ' The women are tall, handsome, and well made, and the easy degance of...
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The beauties of English poetry, selected from the most esteemed ..., Volume 1

John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...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 to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the live-long day-light...
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The Beauties of English Poetry, Volume 1

Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...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 to play On a sunshine -holiday, Till the live-long day-light...
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Poems on Various Subjects: Selected to Enforce the Practice of Virtue, and ...

E. Tomkins - 1804 - 416 pages
...secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry hells ring round; And the jocund rehecs sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade : And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holy-day, Till the live-long daylight...
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Poems on various subjects, selected by E. Tomkins

E Tomkins - 1806 - 280 pages
...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, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the live-long daylight fail; Then...
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