 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 938 pages
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort : d - works, aud her hands kept time to her voicemusic." 5 SCENE II. — " Therefore, the winds, piping to... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy, piping as though he never should be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted (strengthened*) her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's music. 2. THE STAG HUNT.... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1863 - 622 pages
...bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort ; here a shep' herd's boy, piping as though he never should be old ; there a ' young shepherdess, knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed ' her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time ' to her voice-music ;' or ' sweet-minded... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dams' comfort: here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never...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 :... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1869 - 418 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...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.)... | |
 | William Martin - Adventure and adventurers - 1870 - 360 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dams' comfort. Here a shepherd-boy piping as though he should never be old; there a young...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 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...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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 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. GEOROE HERBERT. 1593-1632. RELIGION. All may of thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean,... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd boy piping as though he should never be old; there...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
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dammes' comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping as though 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... | |
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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. 
