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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 voice-music. "
Comedies - Page 364
by William Shakespeare - 1867
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 144

1876 - 592 pages
...with the refreshing of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye- pleasing flowers, and thickets which being lined with most pleasant shade...and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music.' The following scattered sentences are pregnant with...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams comfort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he...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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams conifort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should...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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, •with bleating oratory, craved the dams comfort. Here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he...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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...and by welcomed Musidorus' eyes (wearied with the wasted soil of Laconia) with delightful prospects. There were hills, which garnished their proud heights...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...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...stately trees ; humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of siiver riversj meadows, enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing...and it seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. As for ther houses of the country (for many houses...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: Delivered at ...

William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds...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...
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Lectures chiefly on the dramatic literature of the age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
...of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds...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...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shades were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition...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 muny houses...
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...pasture stored with sheep, feeding with sober security ; while the prettv lambs, with bleating orator}', O work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. [A Stag Hunt.] Then went they together abroad, the...
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