 | English literature - 1874 - 274 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...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 — yet not so far as... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 260 pages
...he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting and withall singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice music. " 517 Dianas. " You seem to me as Dian in her orb, As chaste," &c. , — SHAKESPEARE,... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 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.—Arcadia. 3. Pamela and Philoclea. THE elder is named Pamela, by many men not deemed... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1877 - 656 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. by Joseph Hall, appeared in 1605. The man has taken a great stride since he wrote his satires (ante,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...he should never be old; there, a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it Deemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under tlieir eye), they were... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - Kent (England) - 1877 - 398 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 tli'... | |
 | Sir Archibald Michie - Australia - 1879 - 386 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." Put beside this sheep station of Sir Philip Sydney one of our stations, garnished with... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 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 voicc-mueic. A Staff Hunt. Then went t!i( y together abroad, the good Kalander entertaining them with... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...thepreU; if «-e dams' comfort f*^. ' shepherdess, knitting and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voiceID usic.' From ' The Defence of Poesy ' we could cull, did space permit, a hundred passages even... | |
 | Francis Thayer Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 330 pages
...he should never be did ; 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. 4. " Upward Slide " of " unimpassioned interrogation." "Have you heard the neVs ? Can we place any... | |
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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. 
