... 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 34by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 349 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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