 | 1813 - 342 pages
...— When icicles hang on the wall. Shakspeare. Set by Dr. Arne. Foco allegro. When ici cles hang on the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs inI ffi K When blood is nipt and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl; Then nightly sings... | |
 | 1816 - 420 pages
...year ' .' 1 The following stanzas of our immortal bard are happily descriptive of this season :— When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom hears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is n^pt, and ways be foul,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckow! BOOK III. 603 ll".n!,r. A Song. When icicl« hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail ; And Tom l>ears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,... | |
 | 1816 - 782 pages
...blc.<w. Mi<t, 6. To warm with the breath. — When the ifick s hang by the wall, And Dick the fliephtrd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk come frozen home in pail. Shqtef. 7. To fpread by report. — But never was there man of his degree,... | |
 | 1820 - 190 pages
...though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. SHAKSPEARE. A WINTER SONG. WHEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, ^nd Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail : The Vanity of Greatness. 107... | |
 | Sarah Harriet Burney - 1820 - 456 pages
...comforting beams of the sun; and repeating to myself Shakspeare's incomparable picture of Winter: s " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, &c." I was suddenly joined by Mr. Tremayne. We shook hands, and mutually expressed our satisfaction... | |
 | 1821 - 324 pages
...familiar, cannot read it again without pleasure. Its simplicity I know not how sufficiently to commend. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul; 'I hen nightly sings the staring owl Tn-whit, tn-whoo, a merry note, While... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 516 pages
...cuckoo,— О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! III. Winter. When icicles hang by the vail, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears...frozen home in pail, When blood is nipp'd, and ways befoul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who ; Tu-whit, to-who, a merry note. While greasy Joan... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 500 pages
...a married ear! III. WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall5, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail 6, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, s When icicles hang BY THE WALL,] ie from the eaves of the thatch or other roofing, from which in the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 614 pages
...; Iliad, xiv. STEEVENS. 6 — the shepherd, blowing of his nails,] So, in Love's Labour's Lost : " When icicles hang by the wall, " And Dick the shepherd blows his nail — ." MALONE. t The quarto, 160, printed by WW reads— crutl jars. * Can neither call it perfect... | |
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Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and raw, When... 
