 | Edward Walford - London (England) - 1885 - 664 pages
...' listening to the song of ' 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.' We have no time in our days for such lingering delights ; we have no taste River Lea.] [River Lea.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1903 - 170 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... | |
 | William Peacock - English literature - 1903 - 408 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 meu too often do ; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale. Her voice was good, and... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - English poetry - 1904 - 514 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... | |
 | England - 1904 - 820 pages
..." The Compleat Angler " in a memorable passage, " 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 often do." Maudlin sang " like a nightingale," one painting of a young and beautiful woman clad in a melancholy... | |
 | Jessie Bedford, Elizabeth Godfrey - Great Britain - 1904 - 356 pages
...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 fitted for it : it was that ' smooth song that was made by Kit Marlow, now at ' least fifty years ago ; and the milkmaid's mother sang ' an answer... | |
 | Jessie Bedford, Elizabeth Godfrey - Great Britain - 1904 - 364 pages
...a nightingale : her ' voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it : it was that ' smooth song that was made by Kit Marlow, now at ' least fifty years ago ; and the milkmaid's mother sang ' an answer to it which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh ' in his younger days. ' They were old-fashioned... | |
 | Jessie Bedford, Elizabeth Godfrey - Great Britain - 1904 - 352 pages
...a handsome ' milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and ' wisdom as to load her mind with fears 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 496 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 he, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sang like a nightingale. Her voice... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - Anthologies - 1906 - 352 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... | |
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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... 
