 ... 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.  Records of Noble Lives - Page 34by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 349 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old : there a...country (for many houses came under their eye) they *ere scattered, no two being one by the other, and yet not so far off, as that it barred mutual succour... | |
 | G. A. Perdicaris - 1845 - 336 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory crave the dames' comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old; there a...young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing, and it seems that her voice comforts her hands to work, and her hands keep time to her voice-music. As for... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...security ; while the prettv lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy oth sing, And stops his pipe in growth of riper days...hush the night, But that wild music burdens every [A Stag Hunt.] Then went they together abroad, the good Kalander entertaining them with pleasant discoursing... | |
 | Gallery - 1848 - 282 pages
...security; while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy, piping, as though he should never be old ; there a...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music." It is but supposing the figures in the foreground to represent a shepherd-boy and a youthful shepherdess,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, u me fetch thee thirty shillings ! I put thee now to...canst. Fat. My lord, this is a poor mad soul ; and [A Stag Hunt.} Then went they together abroad, the good Kalander entertaining them with pleasant discoursing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...security ; while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd s boy ds, I a bauds to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. [A Stay //••«'.] Then went they together... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 600 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort: here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music." 11 SCENE II. — "Therefore, the winds, piping to us in vain," &C. In Churchyard's ' Charitie,' a poem... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 688 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music." 11 SCENE II. — "Tkerefore, the unnds, piping to us in vain," &c. In Churchyard's 'Charitie,' a poem... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...security ; while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be old ; there a...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. A TEMPEST. There arose even with the sun a vail of dark clouds before his face, which shortly, like... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...security ; while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never be old ; there a...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... | |
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