 | Martin M'Dermot - 1820 - 1058 pages
...hawthorn in the dale. or when he saw Many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequcr'd .-.hadf, And young and old came forth to play, On a sunshine holiday. Surely if Ossian could resist such delights, delights which the state of nature may call peculiarly... | |
 | Peter Irving - Italy - 1820 - 288 pages
...measure of her strength. CHAPTER V. When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade. L'ALLEGBO. THERE is something dreary in the situation of Trieste, that would excite melancholy feelings,... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...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; X And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail : Then... | |
 | John Fitzgerald Pennie - 1827 - 672 pages
...revelry. • Spanish Ballad. • -" As 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." There was John Stubbs, the stoutest wrestler within nine... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...instance of representative harmony. Let the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound, To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade. There is a watery music in the following lines. Fountains ! and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...instance of representative harmony. Let the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound, To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade. There is a watery music in the following lines. Fountains ! and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...iustance of representative harmony. Let the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound, To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade. There is a watery music in the following lines. Fountains ! and ye that wnrble as ye flow, Melodious... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...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 holyday, Till the live-long daylight fail ; Then to the spicy nut-brown... | |
 | Thomas Miller - Country life - 1847 - 388 pages
...beauty." SHAKSFERR. GREENWICH PARK. " 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." MILTON'S " L'AT,LKGHO." HERE we are at liberty to walk over... | |
 | 1876 - 396 pages
...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 young friends know : the meaning of the word " rebecks " in the fourth line ?... | |
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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... 
