 | English poetry - 1857 - 334 pages
...haycock in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, • Pole-Star. 161 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 sun-shine holiday, Till the live -long... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pages
...pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide : Towers and battlements it sees Bosom 'd high in tufted trees. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will...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. Tower'd cities please... | |
 | 1931 - 656 pages
..."Old King Cole was a merry old soul" Ruffner Boys. (Jesters. 19) 9. Village Dance. Blair Girls. (14) "To many a youth and many a maid Dancing in the checkered shade, And young and old come forth to play On a sunny holiday." — Milton. 10. Club Swinging. Maury Boys. (8) In Medieval times, the battle-axe was... | |
 | Bette Charlene Werner - 1986 - 328 pages
...and Prose of William Blake, p. 683, give these lines of the poem as the subject of the illustration: Sometimes with secure delight The upland Hamlets will...round And the jocund Rebecks Sound To many a Youth & many a Maid Dancing in the chequerd Shade And Young & Old come forth to play On a Sunshine Holiday... | |
 | Carl Dahlhaus, Ruth Katz - 454 pages
...latter is easily managed by the voice, he makes the song itself imitative. Thus, in that song, "Let the merry bells ring round, / And the jocund rebecks...To many a youth and many a maid, / Dancing in the chequer'd shade," — he makes the voice in the beginning imitate the sound of a chime of bells, and... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...fantastic toe. And in thy right hand lead with thee, The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; (1. 33-36) 22 pring opens (touching sk chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, (1. 93—98) 23 Tells... | |
 | András Horn - 1998 - 212 pages
...dessen Titel bereits die Grundstimmung des Gedichts vorwegnimmt, stehen etwa folgende Verse: [...] 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 [...] (Z. 91-98; 1969:... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...ring round, And the jocund rebecs sound To many a youth, and many a maid, 95 Dancing in the Checker'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a Sunshine...livelong daylight fail; Then to the Spicy Nut-brown Ale, 100 With stories told of many a feat, How Faery Mab the junkets eat; She was pincht and pull'd, she... | |
 | Douglas Trevor - 2004 - 288 pages
...it as potentially enjoyable to watch: "To many a youth, and many a maid, / Dancing in the chequered shade; / And young and old come forth to play / On...daylight fail, / Then to the spicy nut-brown ale" (95-100). Still, Milton's final, conditional endorsement of a mirthful, social existence - "These delights... | |
 | John Milton - 2006 - 94 pages
...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...nut-brown ale, With stories told of many a feat, How Faery Mab the junkets eat. She was pinched and pulled, she said; And he, by Friar's lantern led, Tells... | |
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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, And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday... 
