 | William Gardiner - Musicians - 1853 - 408 pages
...pleasure entertained me : it was 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 never will be ; she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale; her voice was good, and the ditty... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - Fishing - 1854 - 348 pages
...that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom, as to load her mind with any fears of many thmgs that will never be, as too many men too often do :...it : it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Mario w, now at least fifty years ago: and the milkmaid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - Country life - 1855 - 478 pages
...pleasure entertained me ; it was a handsome milk-maid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago ; ami the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it, which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...pleasure entertained me ; it was a handsome milk-maid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it, which was mado by Sir Walter Raleigh, 3 in his younger days. They were old-fushioned poetry, but choicely good... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 pages
...pleasure entertained me: 'twas a handsome milk-maid, 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,—it was that smooth song, which was made by Kit Marlow 1 , now at least fifty years ago. And the... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1856 - 432 pages
...to load her mind with any fears of things that will never be ; but she cast away all care, and sang like a nightingale : her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it.' Providence, however, had decreed that the stern realities of life should press heavily upon the poetess,... | |
 | Country life - 1856 - 482 pages
...pleasure entertained me ; it was a handsome milk-maid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will nover be, as too many men too often do ; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale :... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1856 - 602 pages
...to load her mind with any fears of things that will never be ; bn» she cast away all care, and sang like a nightingale : her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it." Providence, however, had decreed that thé stern realities of life should press heavily upon the poetess,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...pleasure entertained me ; it was a handsome milk-maid, that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...good, and the ditty fitted for it : it was that smooth a-milking again. I will give her the chub, and persuade them to sing those two songs to us. God speed... | |
 | English poetry - 1858 - 396 pages
...writer of some credit, who has inserted them both in his Complete Angler, 1 under the character of ' 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. . . . 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... 
