 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...tried his simple art, But distant far was Ellen's heart. XII. Ballad 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - Lady of the Lake (Legendary character) - 1811 - 602 pages
...Minstrel tried his simple art, But distant far was Ellen's heart. XII. 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... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1811 - 464 pages
...was Ellen's heart. l.i8 THE LADY OF THE LAKE. CANTO iv. XII. TBattaD. 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... | |
 | James Jennings - Birds - 1828 - 526 pages
...merle for the blackbird, and mavis for the thrush, are used chiefly by our 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." THE HEDGE-SPARROW'S COMPLAINT.... | |
 | Edward Jesse - Animal behavior - 1834 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Literature - 1845 - 636 pages
...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...blades, the chief of whom was Billy Blackaby, an idle, good-humored, but cunning rogue, who neglected his farm for the chase ; and whose grey frock, trowsers,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Geography - 1846 - 52 pages
...present so many fine images of sound and sight, as the following stanza from Scott: " Merry it is in the good green wood, When the mavis and merle are singing, When the hounds are in cry, and the deer sweep by, And the hunter's horn is ringing." But neither the sea, which... | |
 | Julia Charlotte MAITLAND - 1847 - 284 pages
...being provided with the old post horn that hung up in the hall. They sang iu chorus: — " Merry it is in 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." This scene included all the... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - Natural history - 1850 - 630 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1851 - 242 pages
...Thus the great novelist, in his "Lady of the Lake," makes the forester say— " 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." ' 34 FAVOBITE SONG BIRDS.... | |
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Tis merry, 'tis merry in good green wood, When the mavis and merle are 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 blades, the chief of... 
