 | 724 páginas
...wanderer home. , ("To be continued. ) THE CHASE. HUNTING NOTES FOR SEPTEMBER. BY BABY. Merry it is in the good green wood When the mavis and merle are singing, When the fox sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the banter's horn is ringing. The master or manager of... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1810 - 454 páginas
...Minstrel tried his simple art, But distant far was Ellen's heart. XIT. ALICE BRAND. Merry it is in the good green wood, When the mavis* and merle •(• are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing. " O Alice Brand, my native... | |
 | 1810 - 482 páginas
...following Song may give a good specimen of this Canto : — BALLAD.— ALICE BRAND. " Merry it is in tbe good green wood, " When the mavis and merle are singing, " When the deer sweeps by, and the bounds are in cry, " And tbe hunter's horn is ringing. " O Alice Brand, my native... | |
 | 1829 - 494 páginas
...merle for the blackbird, and Mavis for the Thrush, are used chiefly by the poets. Merry is it in the good green wood, When the Mavis and merle ,are singing, When the deer sweeps by and. the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing. SCOTT. Take thy delight in... | |
 | 1854
...wanderer home. (" To le continued.} THE CHASE. HUNTING NOTES FOR SEPTEMBER. BY BABY. Merry it is in the good green wood When the mavis and merle are singing, When the fox sweeps by, and the hounds are in 1117, And the hunter's horn U ringing. The master or manager of... | |
 | William Dunlop, Backwoodsman - 1832 - 136 páginas
...above the snow, it is to have it bit off by the frost. CHAPTER V. • 'Tis merry, 'tis merry, in the good green wood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the deer sweep by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.' SIR WALTER SCOTT. Field-Sports... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1834 - 372 páginas
...the affidavit, because the truth of their assertion had been doubted. ' Tis merry, 'tis merry, in the good green wood, ' When the mavis and merle are singing, ' When the deer sweep by, and the hounds are in cry, ' And the hunter's horn is ringing.' SIR W. SCOTT. I AM writing... | |
 | Sir James Edward Alexander - 1838 - 336 páginas
...State; and another after Robert W. Hay, Esq., FRS, late Under Secretary of State for the Colonies. " "Tis merry, 'tis merry, in good green wood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunters horn is ringing." In the centre of the valley... | |
 | 720 páginas
...home. С То Ъв continued.) THE CHASE. HUNTING NOTES FOR SEPTEMBER. BY BABY. Merry it is in the good green wood When the mavis and merle are singing, When the fox sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the banter's horn is ringing. The master or manager of... | |
 | 1845 - 636 páginas
...ought to temper his ardor in the chase, with all its exhilarating accompaniments. " 'T is merry, Ч is merry in good green wood, When the mavis and merle...singing, When the deer pass by, the hounds are in cry, Ami the hunter's horn is ringing." On our way to the " runways," we were met by three " loafish" looking... | |
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tis merry in good green wood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the deer pass by, the hounds are in cry And the hunter's horn is ringing. 
