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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 103
by George Burnett - 1807
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The gallery of engravings, ed. by G. N. Wright (C. H ..., Issue 109, Volume 2

Gallery - 1848 - 282 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...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music." It is but supposing the figures in the foreground to represent a shepherd-boy and a youthful shepherdess,...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd's boy piping, u me fetch thee thirty shillings ! I put thee now to...canst. Fat. My lord, this is a poor mad soul ; and [A Stag Hunt.} Then went they together abroad, the good Kalander entertaining them with pleasant discoursing...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...security ; while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd s , lads, I a bauds to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. [A Stay //••«'.] Then went they together...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 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." The account of a stag-hunt is even more characteristic. It abounds in the faults as well as the beauties...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 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...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. A TEMPEST. There arose even with the sun a vail of dark clouds before his face, which shortly, like...
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The comedies, histories, tragedies and poems of William Shakspere ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 688 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...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music." 11 SCENE II. — "Tkerefore, the unnds, piping to us in vain," &c. In Churchyard's 'Charitie,' a poem...
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The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 604 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...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music." " SCENE II.— " Therefore, die wind*, piping to us in vain," &c. In Churchyard's ' Charitie,' a poem...
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The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin ...

William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 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...her hands to 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,...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 pages
...bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never bo old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal...work, and her hands kept time to her voice-music. A TEMPEST. There arose even with the sun avail of dark clouds before his face, which shortly, like...
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The Good Old Times of Queen Bess

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 224 pages
...bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never grow old ; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal...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), no two being...
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