 | William Shakespeare - 1593 - 138 pagine
...field, a second pleasure entertained me: 'twas a handsome milkmaid: she castaway 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 by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago. And the milkmaid's mother... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1896 - 138 pagine
...field, a second pleasure entertained me: 'twas a handsome milkmaid : 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 which was made by Kit Marlowe, now at least fifty years ago. And the milkmaid's mother... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Phoebe Atwood Taylor - 1653 - 280 pagine
...a fecond pleafure entertained me, 'twas a handfbme Milk-maid, that had caft away all care, and fung like a Nightingale ; her voice was good, and the Ditty fitted for it; 'twas that fmooth Song which was made by KitMarlow,iiow at leaft fifty years ago; andtheMilk maids... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - 1775 - 620 pagine
...pleafure entertained me ; "twas a handfome milk-maid, that had not yet attained fo much age and wifdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...will never be, as too many men too often do ; but fhe caft away all care, and fung like a nightingale; her voice •was good, and the ditty fitted for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1785 - 456 pagine
...writer of some credit, who. has inserted them both in his Compleat Angler, 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 poetry,... | |
 | 1822 - 688 pagine
...Hie war 159U. Isaac Walton has inserted it in his ': Compjete Augler," under (he character of '• that smooth song, which was made by Kit Marlow, now at least fifty years ago." Sir Walter Raleigh wrote the "Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd," but we can only insert a part... | |
 | 1799 - 958 pagine
...entertained me ; 'twas a ' handfomg milk^rnaid, that had • not yet attained fo much age and • wifdoin as to load her mind with « any fears of many things...will ' never be, as too many men too ' often do ; but (be caft away all ' care, and fang like a nightingale." " Jn the paftoral fong and ballad the moderns,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1800 - 482 pagine
...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...many men too often do; but she cast away all care and sang like a nightingale."* In the pastoral song and ballad the moderns, 'and particularly the scotch... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pagine
...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...the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it, which wa» made by sir Walter Raleigh, in his younger days. They were old-fashioned poetry, but choicely... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pagine
...pleasure entertained me ; 'twas a handsome milk-maid, that had not yet attained so much age arid wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things...was that smooth song, which was made by Kit Marlow, uow at least fifty years ago ; and the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it, which wasmade by sir... | |
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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... 
