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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-music. "
A Renegade Poet: And Other Essays - Page 234
by Francis Thompson - 1910 - 344 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 144

1876 - 592 pages
...many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music.' The following scattered sentences are pregnant with the fine moral sense which may be discerned in...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams comfort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams conifort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved tho dams comfort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he...shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seemed thai her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 524 pages
...sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, •with bleating oratory, craved the dams comfort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 550 pages
...with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams comfort. Here a shepherd's .boy piping, as though...singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her bauds to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort:...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for ther houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 pages
...many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort;...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were scattered, no two...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 pages
...many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort;...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were scattered, no two...
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