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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 Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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 Yoice-rr usic. After being at the house of Kalander a few days, Pyrocles mysteriously arrives. The...
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A Handbook for Travellers in Kent and Sussex

John Murray (Firm), Richard J. King - East Sussex (England) - 1863 - 506 pages
...shepheardess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voyce comforted her hands to worke, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the countrey (for many houses came under their eye), they were all scattered, no two being one by th' other,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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 K:ilandcr a few days, Pyrocles mysteriously wrives. The...
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Typical Selections from the Best English Authors: With Introductory Notices

English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 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. 3. Pamela and Philoclea. THE elder is named Pamela, by many men not deemed inferior to her sister :...
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English Style; or, a course of instruction for the attainment of a good ...

George Frederick Graham - English language - 1869 - 418 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.' (Adventure of Una with the Lion.)...
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Noble Boys: Their Deeds of Love and Duty

William Martin - Adventure and adventurers - 1870 - 360 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." Such was Arcadia, and such the sweet quiet and peaceful tenor of the mind of the noble...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...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." The account of a stag-hunt is even more characteristic. It abounds in the faults as well as the beauties...
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The Life and Times of the Hon. Algernon Sydney, 1622-1683, Volume 1

Alexander Charles Ewald - Politicians - 1873 - 438 pages
...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...under their eye), they were all scattered, no two Iwing one by the other, and yet not so far off as that it barred mutual succour : a show, as it were,...
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English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a ...

William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 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. GEOROE HERBERT. 1593-1632. RELIGION. All may of thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean,...
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Black's Guide to Kent

Kent (England) - 1874 - 598 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...eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by th' other, and yet not so far off as that it barred mutual succour ; a show, as it were, of an accompanionable...
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