 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...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." The account of a stag-hunt is even more characteristic. It abounds in the faults as well as the beauties... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 1232 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...he should never be old ; there a young Ehcpherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusic. SIB PHILIP Smxir. 1554-lSJ*. FROM THE "FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS." Shepherds all, and maidens fair, Fold... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...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 voicemusic. SIE Pinup SIDNEY. 1554-1536. FROM THE "FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS." Shepherds all, and maidens fair, Fold... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...he should never be old ; there a young fhepherdess knitting, nnd withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusie. SIR Pini.tr SIMM. 1554-15S6. FROM THE "FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS." Shepherds all. and maidens... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 pages
...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. 4. From Spenser's Faerie Queene : — about 1590.1 (Adventure, of Una with the Lion.)... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...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-rr usic. After being at the house of Kalander a few days, Pyroeles mysteriously arrives. The... | |
 | 1858 - 372 pages
...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. Everywhere signs of peace and good husbandry. The very shepherds were superior to all... | |
 | David Masson - English fiction - 1859 - 332 pages
...and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusick. As for the houses of the country (for many houses...other, and yet not so far off as that it barred mutual succor, — a show, as it were, of an accompanable solitariness, and of a civil wildness. " ' I pray... | |
 | David Masson - Literary Criticism - 1859 - 356 pages
...and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusick. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye), they were all seattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far off as that it barred mutual succor, —... | |
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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. 
