 | John Mills - 1844 - 848 pages
...merry party we shall be to-night, and form around a good hearty ENGLISH FIRESIDE." CHAPTER XV. • " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl." NOT a leaf fluttered on bough or twig. It was the depth... | |
 | Literature - 1902 - 874 pages
...Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, and T. Nash among the number. What says Shakespeare? — When icicles bang by the wall And Dick the Shepherd blows his nail....And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul. Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo! Tuwhit! tu-whoo! a merry note!... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. Andrew Mareell. LYRICS FROM THE OLDER WRITERS. I. WINTER. WHEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,1 Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo ! Tu-whit ! tu-whoo ! a merry... | |
 | John Mills - 1845 - 324 pages
...ploughmen's clocks ; When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks ; The cuckoo, then, on every tree, Mocks married men,...— O word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear." WITH creels slung across their shoulders, cased fishing-rods in their hands, and their appointments... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...not so sharp As friend remember'd not. Heigh, ho ! &c. &c. [At the end of • Love's Labour Lost1] nded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with...fist, instead of a stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon nipt, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo ! Tu-whit ! tu-whoo ! a merry note,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...ploughmen's clocks, When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws, And maidens bleach their summer smocks. eare @; , Winter. When icicles hang by the wall. And Dick the shepherd blows Ilif nail. And Tom bears logs into... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 760 pages
...ploughmen's elockt. When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws. And maidens bleach their summer tmockt, f life. //'•/. And, certes, the text most infallibly in. Winter. When icicles hang by tJie -wall. And Dick the shepherd blows fits nail. And Tom bears logs... | |
 | Floriculture - 1848 - 416 pages
...them all a happy new year, and much pleasure from a perusal of The Florist over a cheerful fire, " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail." GENERAL INDEX. Amaryllids, Mr. Carton on, 239. Antirrhinum, culture of, 42. Antirrhinums, 313. Auriculas,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...friend remember'd not. Heigh, ho ! kc. tie, wv [At the end of ' Love's Labour Lost*] When iciclçs c> nipt, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo ! Tu-whit ! tu-whoo ! a merry note,... | |
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When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall. And milk comes frozen home in pail... 
