 | William George Waters - English literature - 1906 - 342 pages
...a second pleasure entertained me, 'twas a handsome Milk-maid, that had cast away all care, and sang 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-maid's... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1907 - 896 pages
...pleasure entertained me. 'Twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...it; it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago; and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...pleasure entertained me ; 'twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...men too often do ; but she cast away all care, and sang like a nightingale ; her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it : it was that smooth song... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1908 - 864 pages
...pleasure entertained me. 'Twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightin. gale; her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; it was that smooth song which was made... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1908 - 944 pages
...pleasure entertained me. 'Twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men loo often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale; her voice was good, and the... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - English literature - 1908 - 440 pages
...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 milkmaid's... | |
 | Esther Meynell - Authors, English - 1909 - 412 pages
...pleasure entertained me ; 'twas a handsome Milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...and sung like a nightingale. Her voice was good, and with the ditty fitted for it ; 'twas that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder, David Starr Jordan - Fishes - 1909 - 422 pages
...pleasure entertained me ; 'twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...-cast away all care and sung like a nightingale." It is much the same to-day; fish stories are not all finbreadth escapes, or violent givings of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 246 pages
...field, a second pleasure entertained me; 'twas a handsome milkmaid: she east away all care and sang like a nightingale. Her voice was good and the ditty fitted for it: it was the smooth song which was made hy Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago. And the milkmaid's mother... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sang and ocean without res,t^ They also serve who only...eyes, though clear To outward view, of blemish or sang an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned... | |
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As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me' 'twas a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too... 
