 | 1876 - 592 pages
...eye- pleasing flowers, and thickets which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds...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
...with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams comfort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams conifort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...he should never be old ; there a young 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 houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, •with bleating oratory, craved the dams comfort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds...work, 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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...eye-pleasing' .flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...by and by welcomed Musidorus' eyes (wearied with the wasted soil of Laconia) with welcome prospects. There were hills which garnished their proud heights...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were scattered, no two... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...by and by welcomed Musidorus' eyes (wearied with the wasted soil of Laconia) with welcome prospects. There were hills which garnished their proud heights...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were scattered, no two... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 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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... 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 music. 
