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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 103
by George Burnett - 1807
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Typical selections from the best English authors, with ..., Volume 1

English authors - 1876 - 484 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...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...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never Ь: l bride, And from her fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and hinds to work, and her hands kept time to her voiceA Stag-hunt. Then went they together abroad, the...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1877 - 656 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...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,...
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Chambers's national reading-books, Book 6

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dams' comfort; here a shepherd's i'oy piping as though 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...
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Handbook for Travellers in Kent ...

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'...
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Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of ...

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1878 - 560 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...a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, ttnd it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusic....
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Readings in Melbourne: With an Essay on the Resources and Prospects of ...

Sir Archibald Michie - Australia - 1879 - 386 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...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...
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The Madras University Calendar, Volume 1

University of Madras - 1879 - 674 pages
...hazardeth sore that waxeth wyse by erperience. (d.) — There is a young shepherdess knitting and witha) singing ; and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept to her voice music. IX. Eliminate the prefixes in the following worda — give their force, and state...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...could almost bethink themselves of ed up in his uever-BatUflod mouth. Description of Arcadia. ____ shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be...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...
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Every-day English

Richard Grant White - English language - 1880 - 558 pages
...superfluous, except for the sequel. I add instances of a like use of should, not impersonal : — " . . . . here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never be old." (Sidney, Arcadia.) " .... if hee had traced the nature of the soule from its first principles, hee...
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