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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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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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...seemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, aud her hands kept time to her voice-rr usic. ^ , •e After being at the hnuse of Kalander a few days,...
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George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 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...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice music. 4. From Spenser's Faerie Queene : — about 1590.1 (Adventure, of Una with the Lion.)...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...while the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort : here a shepherd's boy piping1, as though he should never be old ; there a young shepherdess...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-rr usic. After being at the house of Kalander a few days, Pyroeles mysteriously arrives. The...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 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...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-it usic. After being at the house of Kalander a few days, Pyrocles mysteriously arrives. The...
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Cambridge Essays, Volume 4

1858 - 372 pages
...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's music. Everywhere signs of peace and good husbandry. The very shepherds were superior to all...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 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...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-rr usic. After being at the house of Kalander a few days, Pyrocles mysteriously arrives. The...
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The Life and Times of Sir Philip Sidney

S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 490 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...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice music." — "A happy people," he says, " were the Arcadians ; wanting little, because they desired...
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British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History ...

David Masson - 1859 - 330 pages
...the pretty lambs with bleating oratory craved the dam's comfort ; here a shepherd-boy piping as if 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...
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British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History ...

David Masson - 1859 - 356 pages
...with bleating oraton• craved the dam's comfort; here a shepherd-boy piping as if he never should be old; there a young shepherdess knitting, and withal...her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voicemusick. As for the houses of the country (for many houses came under their eye), they were all...
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The Merrie Days of England: Sketches of the Olden Time

Edward McDermott (of Camberwell, Eng.?) - 1859 - 224 pages
...though he mould never be old, there a young fhepherdefs knitting, and withal finging, and it feemed that her voice comforted her hands to work, and her hands kept time to her voice-mufic." Pope, too, has told of the happy fecurity of paftoral life, in the couplet,— Piping...
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