| William Martin - Adventure and adventurers - 1870 - 360 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dams' comfort. Here a shepherd-boy piping as though he should never be old; there a young...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 subject of these... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...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-music." The account of a stag-hunt is even more characteristic. It abounds in the faults as well... | |
| Alexander Charles Ewald - Politicians - 1873 - 438 pages
...sheep-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-music. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye), they were all... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd's piping, as though he should never be old ; there a...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, Which with this... | |
| Kent (England) - 1874 - 598 pages
...feeding 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...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 all... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd boy piping as though he should never be old; there...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1874 - 260 pages
...with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dammes' comfort : here a shepherd's 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... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never Ь: l bride, And from her fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and hinds to work, and her hands kept time to her voiceA Stag-hunt. Then went they together abroad, the... | |
| Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1877 - 656 pages
...feeding 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...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... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...security, while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dams' comfort; here a shepherd's i'oy piping as 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... | |
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