 | 1876 - 592 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 following scattered sentences are pregnant with the fine moral sense which may be discerned in... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 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 ther houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no two being... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 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...country (for many houses came under their eye) they were scattered, no two being one^by the other, and yet not so far eff, as that it barred mutual succour... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 856 pages
...and beat the ground In a light fantastick round. Afiitim. A young .shepherdess 'kmttmg and singing : her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's musick. Sidney. A thousand Cupids in those curls do sit ; Those curious nets thy slender fingen... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 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...voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for muny houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 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...other, and yet not so far off, as that it barred mutual succor; a show as it were, of an accompaniable solitariness; andofagivil wilderness." Sir Waller Raleigh,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 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 *ere scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far off, as that it barred mutual succour... | |
 | G. A. Perdicaris - Greece - 1845 - 336 pages
...knitting, and withal singing, and it seems that her voice comforts her hands to work, and her hands keep time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country — for many houses come under the eye — they are scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet'not so far off, as... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 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 Stag Hunt.] Then went they together abroad, the good Kalander entertaining them with pleasant discoursing... | |
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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. 
