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The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ... - Page 137
1806 - 380 pages
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 7

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...her bower she leaves. With ThestyHs to bind the sheaves; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tan'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight,...invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checquer'd shade ; And young and old...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 1

John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. C rologue, yet using sometimes, in case of self-defence,...what among us passes for best, thus much before-hand faery Mab the junkets eat ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she sed ; And he, by friars lantern led, Tells...
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Giovanni Sbogarro: A Venetian Tale. [Taken from the French], Volume 1

Peter Irving - Italy - 1820 - 288 pages
...not be compelled to hate them ; for that sentiment exceeded the 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...
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The Herald of peace. July 1850-Jan./March 1930. Oct. /Dec. 1938, Jan./April 1939

International peace society - 232 pages
...beneath her olive crown. Welcome to Britain's land ; Welcome with heart and hand : Welcome to all ! When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound, To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing on the checkered shade." And as if all these demonstrations on earth in favour of Peace, had not been...
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 17

British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight...youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; " "oung and old come forth to play •"•ine holy-day, '•d,ay-light fail : " *»rown ale, - feat,...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in. the...And young and old come forth to play On a sun-shine holy-day, Till the live-long day-light fail: Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...bow'r she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes, with secure delight,...stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets ate ; She was pinch'd, and pull'd, she said, And he by friar's lantern led ; Tells how the drudging...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 1-2

British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight...nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How faery Mab the junkets ate : She was pinch'd and pull'd, she said ; And he, by friar's lantern led,...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...bower she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or if the earlier season lead To the , mi',! shall bring them twice a-day. With a fa, веc. The...king with wonder and surprise, Will swear the seas holyday. Till the live-long daylight fail ; Then to the spicy nut-brown ale, With stories told of many...
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The perennial calendar, and companion to the almanack, revised and ed. [or ...

Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...Allegro, beautifully expresses haytime and its frolics : — Or, if the earlier season lead To the tanned Haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight...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...
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