| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 страници
...place and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me. 'Twas a handsome milk-inaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as...nightingale. Her voice was good and the ditty fitted for it. 'Twas that smooth song which was made by Kit. Marti) " Its (' Complete Angler's ') simplicity, its... | |
| sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 страници
...birth. As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me ; it was a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much....a nightingale : her voice was good, and the ditty 3 fitted for it : it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow,4 now at least fifty years ago... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 страници
...birth. As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleatnre entertained me; it was a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any feais of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care,... | |
| Izaak Walton - 1869 - 116 страници
...entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me, 'twas a handsome milkmaid, that had cast away all care, and sung like a Nightingale; her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; 'twas that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago; and the milk maids... | |
| 1919 - 714 страници
...wrapped hi the aroma of boiling coffee. " O God, let me live until May I" I prayed. In spite of the " handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind of any fears of many things that will never be (as too many men often do) ;" in spite of the witchery... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 страници
...birth." As I left this place, and entered the next field, a second pleasure entertained me. It was a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with iny fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do ; but she cast away all care,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 страници
...birth. As I left this place and entered into the next field, a second' pleasure entertained me ; it was a handsome milk-maid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind w:'.li any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do ; but she cast away... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 страници
...birth." As I left this place and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me. It was a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much...of many things that will never be, as too many men often do; but she cast away all care, and sang like a nightingale ; her voice was good, and the ditty... | |
| 1876 - 862 страници
...animated by kindly feeling, and utterly free as well from conventionality as from ribaldry. Maudlin, the ' handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much...any fears of many things that will never be, as too manymen toooften do,' is a veritable queen of curds and cream. I now seo it was not without cause that... | |
| Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 454 страници
...next field, a second pleasure entertained me : 'twas a handsome milk-maid : she cast away all care_ and sung like a nightingale. Her voice was good and...the ditty fitted for it ; it was that smooth song " ' ' ' " " ' ' ' And t Time drives the flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage and rocks grow... | |
| |