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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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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 68

David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - English literature - 1893 - 534 pages
...pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved their dams' comfort ; here a shepherd-boy piping as if we should never be old, there a young shepherdess knitting...seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, for her hands kept time to her music. My text is from Sir Philip Sidney's " Arcadia," a country which...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 68

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1893 - 524 pages
...pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved their dams' comfort ; here a shepherd-boy piping as if we should never be old, there a young shepherdess knitting...singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her lumds to work, for her hands kept time to her music. My text is from Sir Philip Sidney's " Arcadia,"...
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Words and Days: A Table-book of Prose and Verse

Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating outcry craved the dam's comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should...and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands, so to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. PHILIP SIDNEY. IN some Arcadian valley deep...
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort; good house both iu town and country; a great lover...rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women camo under their eye — they were all scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far...
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A Renegade Poet: And Other Essays

Francis Thompson - English literature - 1910 - 372 pages
...sheep, feeding with sober security; while the 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." Sidney is not without that artificial balance and antithesis which, in its most excessive form, we...
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A Renegade Poet: And Other Essays

Francis Thompson - English literature - 1910 - 356 pages
...sheep, feeding with sober security; while the 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." Sidney is not without that artificial balance and antithesis which, in its most excessive form, we...
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Penelope Rich and Her Circle

Maud Stepney Rawson - Great Britain - 1911 - 432 pages
...acquaintances. From the painting in the collection of Lord De L' Isle MARY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE Page 66 withal singing — and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work and her hands kept time to the voicemusic. As for the houses of the country — for many houses came under their eye, — they...
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Penelope Rich and Her Circle

Maud Stepney Rawson - Great Britain - 1911 - 440 pages
...of mere acquaintances. in Ikt tolltrtit* t/ Lard De L' lilt MARY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE Page 66 with, singing — and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work and her hands kept time to the voicemusic. As for the houses of the country — for many houses came under their eye, — they...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice's music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all...
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English Fiction from the Fifth to the Twentieth Century

Carl Holliday - English fiction - 1912 - 472 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 with all singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to worke,...
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