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" Dancing in the chequer'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail... "
The Poetical Preceptor; Or, A Collection of Select Pieces of Poetry ... - Page 137
1806 - 380 pages
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead. 90 Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will...jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, 95 Dancing in the checkcr'd shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sun-shine holy-day, Till...
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The Poetry of Life, Volume 1

Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 358 pages
...opened wide " Her ever-during gates, harmonioui sound, " On golden hinges turning." And again, — " When the merry bells ring round, " And the jocund...To many a youth, and many a maid " Dancing in the cheqner'd shade." " Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow " Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 390 pages
...she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd haycoek in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight * The upland...will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the joeond rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and...
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The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins

1836 - 558 pages
...leaves With Thestylis to bind the sheaves: Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tanned hayeock m the mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland...invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebees sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade ; And young and old come...
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The Book of Gems: Chaucer to Prior

Samuel Carter Hall - 1836 - 336 pages
...she leaves, With Thestylis to bind the sheaves ; Or if the earlier season lead To the tann'd hayeoek in the mead. Sometimes with secure delight The upland...will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the joeond rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...the earlier season lead, To the tann'd haycock in the mead, oo 85 messes] Sylv. Du Bartas, p. 171. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will...jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, 96 Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till...
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The Churchman; a monthly magazine in defence of the venerable ..., Volume 4

1841 - 884 pages
...belief in these matters, when speaking of their evening's amusements, he beautifully says : — " — Till the live-long daylight fail, Then to the spicy...stories told of many a feat, How fairy Mab the junkets ate. She was pinched and pulled, she said, And he by friar's lanthom led. Tell how the drudging goblin...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...Yielding more holesom food then all the messes, That now taste-curious wanton Plenty dresses' fParton. Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will...jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, 95 Dancing in the chequer'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till...
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Selections from the British Poets, Volume 1

Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 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...sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the checker'd shade ; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holyday, Till the livelong daylight...
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Literary Leaves, Volume 1

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...joyous movement of the ensuing verses is a particularly happy instance of representative harmony. Let the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...sound, To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade. There is a watery music in the following lines. Fountains ! and ye that warble as...
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