 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...sition of many wdj . birds ijjfl « ^ jg ^ith sober security thepreU; if «-e dams' comfort f*^. ' shepherdess, knitting and withal singing, and it seemed...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voiceID usic.' From ' The Defence of Poesy ' we could cull, did space permit, a hundred passages even... | |
 | Francis Thayer Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 332 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. 4. " Upicard Slide " of " imimpassioned interrogation." " Have you heard the news ? Can we place any... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 558 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...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music.' Growing Puritanism disparaged poetry, calling the poets of the age 'caterpillars of the. commonwealth.'... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 538 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-mnsic.' Growing Puritanism disparaged poetry, calling the poets of the age 'caterpillars of the... | |
 | Elocution - 1882 - 328 pages
...pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's c6mfort : here a shepherd's boy piping, as though ho should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting,...to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusic. 4. " Upward Slide " of " unimpassioned interrogation." " Have you heard the news ? Can we place any... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 330 pages
...oratory craved the dam's c6mfort : here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be 61d ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing,...to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusic. 4. " Upward Slide " of " unimpassioned interrogation." " Have you heard the news ? Can we place any... | |
 | Francis Thayer Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 330 pages
...oratory craved the dam's c6mfort : here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be did ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing,...to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusic. 4. " Upward Slide " of " unimpassioned interrogation." "Have you heard the neVs ? Can we place any... | |
 | Bayard Tuckerman - Fiction - 1882 - 348 pages
...securitie, while the prettie lambes with bleating oratorie craved the dammes comfort : here a shepheards boy piping, as though he should never be old : there a young shepheardesse knitting, and withall singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to worke,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1883 - 544 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...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... | |
 | James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...while the pretty Lambs with bleating Oratory crav'd the Dams comfort: here a Shepherds Boy, piping aa though he should never be old ; there a young Shepherdess...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-musick. As for the houses of the Country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all... | |
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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. 
