 My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When, for their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the...  British Theatre - Page 23by John Bell - 1791Full view - About this book
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...noise was, if mine ear be true, My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe,...,Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds ; When from their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank... | |
 | Hugh Owen - Shrewsbury (England) - 1825 - 650 pages
...both bands united, which, breaking the stillness of eventide, would remind the contemplative mind of " merriment, Such as the jocund flute or gamesome pipe...full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan*." In the south-eastern corner of Shropshire the ceremony is performed with a slight variation. The last... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
....My best guide now ; methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Sueh as the joeund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When for their teeming floeks, and granges full, In wanton danee they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the Gods amiss.... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 374 pages
...the term in the following beautiful passage ; " Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe, Stirs up among the loose unlettered hinds. When for their teeming flocks and granges full, In wanton dance, they praise the... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...noise was, if mine ear be true, My best guide now ; methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe Stirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, Whon from their teeming flocks, and granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. SCENE FROM COMUS. .'2 wild wood. The Lady enters. In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swill'd insolence Of such late wassailers ; yetO ! where else Shall I... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...ENTERS. This way the noise was, if mine ear be true, 170 My best guide now; methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-manag'd merriment, Such as the jocund...bounteous Pan, And thank the Gods amiss. I should be loath 161 glazing] See Sylvester's Du Bartas, p. 92. 163 Wind] Win. Tickell, Fenton. 165 magic dust] This... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 312 pages
...noise was, if mine ear be true, My best guide now ; methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment, Such as the jocund flute, or gamesome pipe,...bounteous Pan, And thank the Gods amiss. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swill'd insolence Of such late wassailers ; yet oh, where else Shall... | |
 | Samuel Lorenzo Knapp - Books and reading - 1832 - 304 pages
...flute, or gamesome pipe, Sjirs up among the loose unletter'd hinds, When for their teeming flocks, apd granges full, In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the Gods amiss. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swill'd insolence Of such late wassailers ; yet oh, where else Shall... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...Lady. This way the noise was, if mine car be true, 170 My best guide now : methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-manag'd merriment, Such as the jocund...hinds, When for their teeming flocks, and granges full, ' 175 In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan, And thank the gods amiss. I should be loth To... | |
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