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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's music. "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 103
by George Burnett - 1807
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 606 pages
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lamba with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdeas knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work,...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1852 - 324 pages
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort. H»re a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As or the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) y were all scattered, no two being...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places, and People, Volume 1

Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1852 - 344 pages
...listening to his mother as she read to him this famous Pastoral. oratory, craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never...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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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...security ; while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd s boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there...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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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...most pleasant shade, are witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well tuned birds. . . here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old." — -ARCADIA, Book i. Here is also a description of a fountain, which is exquisitely beautiful: —...
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...comfort : here a shepherd's boy Eiping, as though he should never be old ; there a young sheperdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her...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 Rhyme and Reason of Country Life, Or, Selections from Fields Old and New

Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1854 - 482 pages
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young Ehcpherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work,...
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The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life, Or, Selections from Fields Old and New

Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 510 pages
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should...to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusic. SIE Pinup SIDNEY. 1554-1536. FROM THE "FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS." Shepherds all, and maidens fair, Fold...
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English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms. With a ...

William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1855 - 786 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's piping, as though he should never be old ; there a...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice music. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632. EEUGION. All may of thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean,...
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The Rhyme and Reason of Country Life, Or, Selections from Fields Old and New

Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young fhepherdess knitting, nnd withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusie. SIR Pini.tr SIMM. 1554-15S6. FROM THE "FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS." Shepherds all. and maidens...
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