| Francis Thayer Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 330 pages
...oratory craved the dam's c6mfort : here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never be did ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing,...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusic. 4. " Upward Slide " of " unimpassioned interrogation." "Have you heard the neVs ? Can we... | |
| Bayard Tuckerman - Fiction - 1882 - 348 pages
...securitie, while the prettie lambes with bleating oratorie craved the dammes comfort : here a shepheards boy piping, as though he should never be old : there a young shepheardesse knitting, and withall singing, and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to worke,... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - American literature - 1883 - 544 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... | |
| Kent (England) - 1883 - 628 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... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Women - 1883 - 376 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 voicemusic. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye), they were all... | |
| James Baldwin - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...while the pretty Lambs with bleating Oratory crav'd the Dams comfort: here a Shepherds Boy, piping aa though 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... | |
| Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 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 voicemusic. From the DEFENCE OF POESY. And truly Plato, whosoever considereth shall find that in the... | |
| William Black - 1884 - 274 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...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music., Surely she had herself been living in some such land of pleasant delights, without a... | |
| William Black - Dramatists - 1884 - 426 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...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music." Surely she had herself been living in some such land of pleasant delights, without a... | |
| William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 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. GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632. RELIGION. All may of thee partake ; Nothing can be so mean, ^^rhich with... | |
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