 | Thomas Hubert Hutton, Stanley Blake - Fishing - 1919 - 296 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 which... | |
 | Literature - 1877 - 430 pages
...a song that will wear well, and be remembered when many others are dead and buried out of sight. " Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it ;...made by Kit Marlow now at least fifty years ago," says Izaak Walton, writing in 1553, of a song, "Come dwell with me and be my love," respecting which... | |
 | United States - 1919 - 740 pages
...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 of the milkmaid's song, " Come live with me, and be my love ;"... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1921 - 168 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... | |
 | Viscountess Frances Garnet Wolseley Wolseley - Agriculture - 1921 - 360 pages
...knowledge that they are so." About the same time Isaac Walton tells us of a handsome milkmaid " that had cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale ; her voice was good, and the ditty fitted it ; 'twas," he continues, " that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years... | |
 | John Buchan - Detective and mystery stories - 1922 - 324 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 the smooth song that... | |
 | Canada - 1922 - 698 pages
...pleasure entertained me. It was a handsome milkmaid that had not as 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 often do ; but she cast away all care and sung like a nightingale. Her voice was good and the ditty... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1922 - 170 pages
...second pleasure entertained me ; t'was a handsome Milk-maid that had not attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never happen, as too- many men too often do, but she cast away all care and sang like a nightingale ; her... | |
 | English literature - 1924 - 942 pages
...pleasure entertained me ; 'twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom ost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the...him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to sang like a nightingale : her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it : it was that smooth song... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1266 pages
...pleasure entertained me, 'twas a handsome Milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and '95 wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...: 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... | |
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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... 
