...— When icicles hang on the wall. Shakspeare. Set by Dr. Arne. Foco allegro. When ici cles hang on the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs inI ffi K When blood is nipt and ways be foul, Then nightly sings the staring owl; Then nightly sings...

...year ' .' 1 The following stanzas of our immortal bard are happily descriptive of this season :— When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, And Tom hears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is n^pt, and ways be foul,...

...every tree, Mocks married men ; for thus sings he, Cuckow! BOOK III. 603 ll".n!,r. A Song. When icicl« hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail ; And Tom l>ears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul,...

...blc.<w. Mi<t, 6. To warm with the breath. — When the ifick s hang by the wall, And Dick the fliephtrd blows his nail, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk come frozen home in pail. Shqtef. 7. To fpread by report. — But never was there man of his degree,...

...though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. SHAKSPEARE. A WINTER SONG. WHEN icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, ^nd Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail : The Vanity of Greatness. 107...

...comforting beams of the sun; and repeating to myself Shakspeare's incomparable picture of Winter: s " When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, &c." I was suddenly joined by Mr. Tremayne. We shook hands, and mutually expressed our satisfaction...

...familiar, cannot read it again without pleasure. Its simplicity I know not how sufficiently to commend. When icicles hang by the wall, And Dick the shepherd...And milk comes frozen home in pail ; When blood is nipt, and ways be foul; 'I hen nightly sings the staring owl Tn-whit, tn-whoo, a merry note, While...

...cuckoo,— О word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear ! III. Winter. When icicles hang by the vail, 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...

...a married ear! III. WINTER. When icicles hang by the wall5, And Dick the shepherd blows his nail 6, And Tom bears logs into the hall, And milk comes frozen home in pail, s When icicles hang BY THE WALL,] ie from the eaves of the thatch or other roofing, from which in the...

...; Iliad, xiv. STEEVENS. 6 — the shepherd, blowing of his nails,] So, in Love's Labour's Lost : " When icicles hang by the wall, " And Dick the shepherd blows his nail — ." MALONE. t The quarto, 160, printed by WW reads— crutl jars. * Can neither call it perfect...