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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 Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior - Page 223
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Paradise Regain'd: A Poem. In Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes ...

John Milton - 1707 - 480 pages
...Hamlets will invite, > ; When the merry Bells ring round,- ; •<-*•. And the jocond rebecks found To many a Youth, and many a Maid, Dancing in the Chequer'd made } And young and old come forth to play. On a Sunmine Holy-day, Till the live-long day-light fail,...
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Miscellany Poems: Containing Variety of New Translations of the ..., Volume 1

John Dryden - Classical poetry - 1716 - 424 pages
...delight The up-land Hamlers will invire, When the metry Bells ring round, And the jocond rebecks (bund To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the Chequer'd lhade ; And youag and old come forth to play On a Sun(hir:e Holyday, Till the live-long day-light fail,...
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A Select Collection of Modern Poems

English poetry - 1744 - 198 pages
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The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of ...

Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...delight ,' The upland hamlets will .invite When the merry bells ring round, And the jocond rebecks found' To many 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 - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...delight The upland hamlets will invke When the merry bells ring round, And the jocond rebecks found To many 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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Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to ..., Volume 2

James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 582 pages
...up, and fhriek'd again. Anonym. (;«) 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. Milton's Allegro. See alfo Graysi Progrefs of Poefy, Stanza 3. ftrengt&f Ch. II. AND MUSIC....
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Essays: On Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and ...

James Beattie - Classical education - 1779 - 536 pages
...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 ...

Children's poetry, English - 1780 - 226 pages
...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 and old come forth to play On a funfhine holy-day, Till the live-long daylight...
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Allegro und Penseroso

John Milton - 1782 - 40 pages
...sound To many a youth, and many a maid, 9 5 Dancing in the chequer 'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holy-day, Till the live-long day-light fail; Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, 100 With stories told of many a feat, How Faiy-Mab the junkets eat; She was pinch...
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Poems Upon Several Occasions: English, Italian, and Latin

John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...means Sydney's ARCADIA, and the DIANA of George of Monteraayor, two p»f. torsi romance*, then popular* To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd fhade j And young and old come forth to play On a funfhine holy-day, Till the live-long day-light fail...
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