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" ... comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's music. "
Records of Noble Lives - Page 34
by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 349 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 144

1876 - 592 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never be old, there a young...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music.' The following scattered sentences are pregnant with the fine moral sense which may be discerned in...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved tho dams comfort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a...shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed thai her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 550 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams comfort. Here a shepherd's .boy piping, as though he . should never be old ; there...singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her bauds to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort: here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old; there a...and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for ther houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no two being...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old : there a...country (for many houses came under their eye) they were scattered, no two being one^by the other, and yet not so far eff, as that it barred mutual succour...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old : there a...country (for many houses came under their eye) they were scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far off, as that it barred mutual succour...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 12

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 856 pages
...and beat the ground In a light fantastick round. Afiitim. A young .shepherdess 'kmttmg and singing : her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's musick. Sidney. A thousand Cupids in those curls do sit ; Those curious nets thy slender fingen...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort. Here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never be old ; there a...voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for muny houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not...
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The Living Age, Volume 199

1893 - 840 pages
...pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved their dams' comfort ; here a shepherd-boy piping as if we should never be old, there a young shepherdess knitting...seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, for her hands kept time to her music. MY text is from Sir Philip Sidney's " Arcadia," a country which...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old : there a...country (for many houses came under their eye) they were scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far off, as that it barred mutual succour...
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