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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... "
A Short History of the English People - Page 258
by John Richard Green - 1874 - 847 pages
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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
...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 forth to play On. a sunshine holiday, Till the live-long day-light...
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The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 2

George Campbell - English language - 1801 - 404 pages
...vivacity as depending on the choice of words. When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checker'd shade *. In this passage the third line, though consisting of ten syllables, is, by means...
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Poetry Explained for the Use of Young People

Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...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 checker'd shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday. t . .' ..' . "At other...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1803 - 572 pages
...have 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, Volume 1

Peter Pindar - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...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, selected from the most esteemed ..., Volume 1

John Wolcot - English poetry - 1804 - 180 pages
...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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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ...

English poetry - 1806 - 408 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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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 3-4

John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebees sound To many a youth and many a maid. Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to plajr On a sunshine holiday, Till the live-long day-light...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - Elocution - 1808 - 434 pages
...with secure delight The upland hamlet? 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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