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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... "
The Complete Angler [and] the Lives of Donne, Wotton, Hooker, Herbert and ... - Page 58
by Izaak Walton - 1901 - 497 pages
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The Aldus Shakespeare: With Copious Notes and Comments, Volume 39

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...
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

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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Recreations of a Sportsman on the Pacific Coast

Charles Frederick Holder - Fishing - 1910 - 538 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...she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale. Delightfully expressed and telling the complete story of the " Complete Angler," who went fishing that...
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load ta staging "round" 2 a bargain wed; sang like a nightingale: her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it: it was that smooth song which...
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680-1638

Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...retain, Which rightly should possess a poet's brain. — DRAYTON, MICHAEL, c!627, Of Poets and Poesie. That smooth song* which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago : and ... an answer to it which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days. They were old-fashioned...
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Lady Good-for-nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1910 - 480 pages
...sunshine upon the terrace. For a week she would, like Walton's milkmaid, cast away care and refuse to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be. Her spirit sang birdlike within her. And the reason ? — that the Venus had arrived in harbour, with...
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Brother Copas

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1911 - 326 pages
...would keep you always like Master Walton's milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...be, as too many men too often do. But she cast away care " "I think she must have been a pretty silly sort of milkmaid," said Corona. " Likely she ended...
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The First Twelve Centuries of British Story: A Slight Sketch and Criticism ...

John Wynne Jeudwine - Great Britain - 1912 - 510 pages
...Walton's handsome milkmaid, had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to burden her mind with fears of many things that will never be, as too many men often do. A most accomplished beauty of fourteen, able to read and write, a composer of music, the...
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English Prose: From the sixteenth century to the restoration

Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1913 - 624 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...nightingale. Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; 'twas that smooth song, which was made by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago : and the Milkmaid's...
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Biennial Report of the Commissioner of Fisheries and Game for Indiana, Issue 17

Indiana. Commissioner of Fisheries and Game - Birds - 1913 - 346 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: 'twas that smooth, song which...
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