 | John Mills - 1844 - 848 pages
...merry party we shall be to-night, and form around a good hearty ENGLISH FIRESIDE." CHAPTER XV. • " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl." NOT a leaf fluttered on bough or twig. It was the depth of winter. A thin crust of snow covered the... | |
 | John Mills - 1844 - 272 pages
...A merry party we shall be to-night, and form around a good hearty ENGLISH FIRESIDE." CHAPTER XV. " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl." NOT a leaf fluttered on bough or twig. It was the depth of winter. A thin crust of snow covered the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...for thus sings he, Cuckoo ; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! III. Winter. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipped, and ways befoul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, To-who ; To-whit, to-who, a merry note,... | |
 | Literature - 1902 - 874 pages
...Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, and T. Nash among the number. What says Shakespeare? — When icicles bang by the wall And Dick the Shepherd blows his nail....And milk comes frozen home in pail; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul. Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo! Tuwhit! tu-whoo! a merry note!... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...their chime, With falling oars they kept the time. Andrew Mareell. LYRICS FROM THE OLDER WRITERS. I. WINTER. WHEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the...And milk comes frozen home in pail, When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,1 Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo ! Tu-whit ! tu-whoo ! a merry... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...not so sharp As friend remember'd not. Heigh, ho ! &c. &c. [At the end of • Love's Labour Lost1] nded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with...fist, instead of a stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon nipt, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo ! Tu-whit ! tu-whoo ! a merry note,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Alexander Chalmers - Azerbaijan - 1847 - 474 pages
...cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! III. Winter. When icicles hang by the watt, 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... | |
 | Floriculture - 1848 - 416 pages
...them all a happy new year, and much pleasure from a perusal of The Florist over a cheerful fire, " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail." GENERAL INDEX. Amaryllids, Mr. Carton on, 239. Antirrhinum, culture of, 42. Antirrhinums, 313. Auriculas,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...men, for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo, — 0 word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear! Ш. befoul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, 'To-who; Tu-whit, io-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...friend remember'd not. Heigh, ho ! kc. tie, wv [At the end of ' Love's Labour Lost*] When iciclçs c> nipt, and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl, Tu-whoo ! Tu-whit ! tu-whoo ! a merry note,... | |
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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 roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, Then nightly... 
