 | 1732 - 284 pàgines
...gnat, and fly, Serve for our minftreliy. Grace faid, we dance a while, And fo the time beguile ; But if the moon do'th hide her head, The glow-worm lights us home to bed. N * O'er O'er tops of dewy grafs So nimbly we do pafs, The young and tender ftalk' Ne'er bends where... | |
 | 1783 - 360 pàgines
...nice. The grafshopper, gnat, and fly, Serve for our minftrelfy; Grace faid, we dance awhile, And fo the time beguile : And if the moon doth hide her head, The glow-worm lights us home to bed. O'er O'er tops of dewy grafs So nimbly we do pals, The young and tender ftalfc Ne'er bends where we... | |
 | Samuel Felton - 1787 - 400 pàgines
...The grafshopper, gn»t, and fly, §erve us for our minftrelfie ; Grace faid, we dance awhile, And fo the time beguile : And if the moon doth hide her head, The glow-worm lights us home to bed. f On tops of dewie grafs, So nimbly do we pafs, The young and tender ftalk Ne'er bends whenwe do walk... | |
 | 436 pàgines
...uice, The grafbopper, gnat', and fly, Serve for our miniitrelfy, Grace- faid, we dance a white, And fo the time beguile : " ; • And if the moon doth hide her head. The glow-worin lightes us home to bed,' v O'er tops of dewy grafle ,. .,,,,,. ^ ,,g So nimibly we do pafle,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 476 pàgines
...nice. The grafshopper, gnat, and fly, Serve for our minftrelfy ; Grace faid, we dance awhile, And fo the time beguile : And if the moon doth hide her head. The glow-worm lights us home to bed. O'er tops of dewy grafs So nimbly we do pafs, The youns; and tender ftalk Ne'er bends where we do walk;... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pàgines
...nice. The grafshopper, gnat, and fly, Serve for our minnrelfy; Grace faid, we dance awhile, .And fo the time beguile : And if the moon doth hide her head, The gUjw-worm lights us home to bed. O'er tops of dewy grafs So nimbly we do pafs, .-, The young and tender... | |
 | 1819 - 394 pàgines
...fat of snails, Between two cockles stew'd, The grasshopper, gnat, and fly, Serve for our minstrelsy j Grace said, we dance awhile, And so the time beguile...hide her head, The glow-worm lights us home to bed. O'er tops of dewy grass So nimbly we do pass, The young and tender stalk Ne'er bends where we do walk... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pàgines
...wondrous nice ! The grasshopper, gnat, and fly, ^erve for our mimstrelsy ; Grace said, we dance a while, And so the time beguile : And if the moon doth hide her head, The glow-worm lights us home to bed. O'er tops of dewy grass So nimbly we do pass, The young and tender stalk Ne'er bends where we do walk... | |
 | 1823 - 240 pàgines
...drink, In acorn-cups fill'd to the brink. The grasshopper, gnat and fly, Serve us for our minstrelsy ; Grace said, we dance awhile, And so the time beguile...hide her head, The glow-worm lights us home to bed. V. O'er tops of dewy grass So nimbly do we pass, The young and tender stalk Ne'er bends where we do... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - 1830 - 350 pàgines
...little airy beings, of whose histories I am so fond—the fairies—who say so prettily— And when the moon doth hide her head, The glow.worm lights us home to bed. Frederick and I were devising various expedients for making the light of the glow-worms and fire-flies... | |
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And so the time beguile : And if the moon doth hide her head, The glow-worm lights us home to lied. 
