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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. "
English style - Page 317
by George Frederick Graham - 1857
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 144

1876 - 592 pages
...most pleasant shade were witnessed so too by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security,...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music.' The following scattered sentences are pregnant with the fine moral sense which may be...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security,...the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams conifort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security,...the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams comfort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober 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 young shepherdess...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 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...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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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security,...pretty lambs, •with bleating oratory, craved the dams comfort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security,...her hands to 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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security,...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...
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The Retrospective Review, and Historical and Antiquarian Magazine, Volume 2

1820 - 408 pages
...pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerfull disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with sober security,...the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dammes' comfort: here a shepheard's boy piping, as though hee should never be old; there a yong shepheardesse...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 2

Books - 1820 - 404 pages
...most pleasant shade were witnessed so too, by the cheerfull disposition of many well-tuned birds: each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with sober security,...the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dammes' comfort : here a shepheard's boy piping, as though hee should never be old ; there a yong shepheardesse...
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