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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. "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 151
by George Burnett - 1807
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 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, Pyrocles mysteriously arrives. The...
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The Merrie Days of England: Sketches of the Olden Time

Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - England - 1859 - 210 pages
...though he mould never be old, there a young fhepherdefs knitting, and withal finging, and it feemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-mufic." Pope, too, has told of the happy fecurity of paftoral life, in the couplet, — Piping...
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British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History ...

David Masson - Literary Criticism - 1859 - 394 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-musick. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye), they were all...
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The Life and Times of Sir Philip Sidney

S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 326 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." — "A happy people," he says, '' were the Arcadians ; wanting little, because they desired...
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Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1

George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 396 pages
...should never be old; there a young 112 shepherdess, knitting and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusic.' From ' The Defence of Poesy ' we could cull, did space permit, a hundred passages even superior to...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 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. After being at the house of Kalander a few days, Pyrocles mysteriously arrives. The Prince of Arcadia...
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A Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1862 - 588 pages
...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...were all scattered, no two being one by the other, — yet not so far off as that it barred mutual succour ; a show, as it were, of an accompanible solitariness...
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London society, Volume 1

1862 - 538 pages
...he should never be old, there a young shepherdess knitting, nnd withal singin?, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands...As for the houses of the country (for many houses camo under their eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far off...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 77

Literature - 1863 - 646 pages
...though lie never should he old ; there a young shepherdess, knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music ; " or " sweetminded Philoclea, "as she eat in the shade, — " Such as a good painter would bestow...
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The Panorama, a look all round at passing events

1863 - 394 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. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all...
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