 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1860 - 402 pages
...voice was good and the ditty fitted for it ; 'twas that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago, and the milk-maid's mother...Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old fashioned poetry ; but choicely good : I think much better than that now in fashion in this critical... | |
 | Thomas Hubert Hutton, Stanley Blake - 1919 - 296 pages
...smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago, and the milkmaid's mother sang an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh...this critical age. Look yonder! on my word, yonder ihey both be a-milking again. I will give her the chub, and persuade them to sing those two songs to... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1921 - 168 pages
...was good, and the ditty fitted for it : it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago : and the milkmaid's mother...was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. " The sixth stanza, with the corresponding verse in the reply, is first found in the second edition... | |
 | Viscountess Frances Garnet Wolseley Wolseley - 1921 - 360 pages
...smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago ; and the milkmaid's mother sang an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days." The song that Isaac Walton here alludes to was, " Come, live with me and be my love." This is a very... | |
 | 1921 - 688 pages
...Milkmaid for "that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago", and for the answer to it, "which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days". Let the modern imitators in verse of the auctioneer and the steam calliope step into the "lifeless... | |
 | 1922 - 502 pages
...voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milk-maid's mother...lines that are now in fashion in this critical age.' (The Complete Angler, Chapter iv.) Raleigh and Drayton others which are less conventional.19 Shakespeare,... | |
 | 1922 - 696 pages
...fitted for it. It was that smooth song that was made by Kit Marlow, and the milkmaid's mother sang an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh...critical age. Look yonder ! On my word, yonder they both be a-milking again. I will give her the Chub and persuade them to sing those two songs to us.... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1922 - 170 pages
...voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it ; t'was that smooth song, which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago : and the Milk-maid's mother...to it which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his young days." These are the well-known poems on the theme " Come live with me and be my Love," and if... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 270 pages
...proceed to trout, and to the charming scene of the milkmaid and her songs by Raleigh and Marlowe, " I think much better than the strong lines that are now in fashion in this critical age," for Walton, we have said, was the last of the Elizabethans, and the new times were all for Waller and... | |
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... that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely good, I think much... 
