 | S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 324 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...work, and her hands kept time to her voice music." — "A happy people," he says, '' were the Arcadians ; wanting little, because they desired not much."... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 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-rr usic. After being at the house of Kalander a few days, Pyrocles mysteriously arrives. The... | |
 | David Masson - English fiction - 1859 - 330 pages
...the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd-boy piping as if he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-musick. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye), they were all... | |
 | David Masson - Literary Criticism - 1859 - 356 pages
...with bleating oraton• craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd-boy piping as if he never should be old; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusick. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye), they were all... | |
 | Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - England - 1859 - 224 pages
...though he mould never be old, there a young fhepherdefs knitting, and withal finging, and it feemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-mufic." Pope, too, has told of the happy fecurity of paftoral life, in the couplet,— Piping... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 392 pages
...the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams' comfort ; here a shepherd's boy, piping at though he should -never be old; there a young shepherdess,...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusic.' From ' The Defence of Poesy ' we could cull, did space permit, a hundred passages even... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 392 pages
...the dams' comfort ; here a shepherd's boy, piping as though he should never be old; there a young 112 shepherdess, knitting and withal singing, and it seemed...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusic.' From ' The Defence of Poesy ' we could cull, did space permit, a hundred passages even... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 396 pages
...with sober security ; while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams' comfort ; here a shepherd's boy, piping as though he should never be old; there a young 112 shepherdess, knitting and withal singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work,... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1862 - 588 pages
...with sober security, while the pre>tty 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-music. As for the houses of the country, — for many houses came under their eye, — they were... | |
 | 1862 - 538 pages
...boy piping us though he should never be old, there a young shepherdess knitting, nnd withal singin?, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses camo under their eye) they were all... | |
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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 voicemusic. 
