 ... 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 voicemusic.  London society - Page 461862Full view - About this book
 | George Frederick Graham - 1869 - 418 pages
...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. 4. From Spenser's 'Faerie Queene' : — about 1590.' (Adventure of Una with the Lion.)... | |
 | William Martin - 1870 - 360 pages
...shepherd-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." Such was Arcadia, and such the sweet quiet and peaceful tenor of the mind of the noble... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 pages
...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." The account of a stag-hunt is even more characteristic. It abounds in the faults as well as the beauties... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1873 - 438 pages
...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...As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye), they were all scattered, no two Iwing one by the other, and yet not so far off... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 pages
...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. GEOROE HERBERT. 1593-1632. RELIGION. All may of thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean,... | |
 | 1874 - 598 pages
...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...As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye) they were all scattered, no two being one by th' other, and yet not so far off... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 260 pages
...boy piping as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting and withall singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice music. " 517 Dianas. " You seem to me as Dian in her orb, As chaste," &c. , — SHAKESPEARE,... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...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.—Arcadia. 3. Pamela and Philoclea. THE elder is named Pamela, by many men not deemed... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1877 - 656 pages
...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. by Joseph Hall, appeared in 1605. The man has taken a great stride since he wrote his satires (ante,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...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 for the houses of the country (for many houses came under tlieir eye), they were... | |
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