 ... 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.  English style - Page 305by George Frederick Graham - 1869Full view - About this book
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1863 - 622 pages
...valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing ' of silver rivers ; the sheep feeding, while the pretty lambs ' with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort ; here a shep' herd's boy, piping as though he never should be old ; there a ' young shepherdess, knitting,... | |
 | English authors - English literature - 1869 - 458 pages
...were witnessed so too by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored 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 should never be old; there a young shepherdess... | |
 | William Martin - Adventure and adventurers - 1870 - 360 pages
...were witnessed so to by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober 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 shepherdess... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1872 - 582 pages
...were witnessed so to by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security ; while the pretty...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds : each pasture stored with «heep, feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-rousic. » After being at the house of Kalander a few days, Pyrocles mysteriously arrives. The... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - Politicians - 1873 - 438 pages
...too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep-feeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs with bleating...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
...were witnessed so to by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with sober security, while the pretty...oratory, craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd's piping, as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal singing ;... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...were witnessed so to by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with sober security, while the pretty...bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd boy piping as though he should never be old; there a young shepherdess knitting and withal... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 260 pages
...of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye pleasing flowers each pasture stored with sheep feeding 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... | |
 | Kent (England) - 1874 - 598 pages
...were witnessed so too, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored 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 should never be old ; there a young shepherdess... | |
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