 | Beatrice Marshall - 1906 - 358 pages
...Reminiscences at Ivy Church hands kept time to her voice music. ... As for the houses of the country, they were all scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far off that it barred mutual succour ; a show as it were of a companiable solitariness and of a civil wildness."... | |
 | Walter Wilson Greg - English drama - 1906 - 484 pages
...lambs with bleting oratory craved the dams comfort,' where sat the young shepherdess knitting, whose 'voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voices mnsick,' a country where the scattered houses made ' a shew, as it were, of an accompanable... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 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... | |
 | Samuel Jones Gee - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1908 - 400 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 ' (Sidney). This was the delightful vision which Cowley thought to find realized on the banks of Thames.... | |
 | University of Nevada - Humanities - 1908 - 468 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.1 In the passage just quoted is well illustrated Sidney's habitual use of what Ruskin terms... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English prose literature - 1909 - 578 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. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...he should never be old; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing: and it seemed that A Giles.) A PARABLE OF MAN 's LIFE t The king, hearing...and counsellors, to the end that if they also were o succor; a show, as it were, of an accompanable10 solitariness, and of a civil wildness. "I pray you,"... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...he should never be old; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing: and it seemed that ed than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women camo under their eye — they were all scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far... | |
 | Francis Thompson - English literature - 1910 - 356 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." Sidney is not without that artificial balance and antithesis which, in its most excessive form, we... | |
 | Francis Thompson - English literature - 1910 - 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 voicemusic." Sidney is not without that artificial balance and antithesis which, in its most excessive form, we... | |
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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. 
