 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 pagine
...thought, as the poet hath happily exprest it, ' I was for that time lifted above earth, And possest joyes not promis'd in my birth.' 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... | |
 | William George Waters - 1906 - 342 pagine
...these and other sighs had 121 / was for that time lifted above earth; And possest joyes not promised in my birth. As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me, 'twas a handsome Milk-maid, that had cast away all care, and sang like... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pagine
...had so fully possessed my soul, that I thought, as the poet hath happily expressed it: so 128 BUTLER. As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure 85 entertained me. 'Twas a handsome milkmaid that had cast away all care and sang like... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1907 - 354 pagine
...poet hath happily exprest it, * I was for that time lifted above earth, And possest joyes not promisM in my birth.' 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... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pagine
...hath happily expressed it, " I was for that time lifted above earth, And possess'd joys not promised in my birth." 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... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1907 - 892 pagine
...Ignoto," and the evidence that Raleigh wrote it is contained in a famous passage in the Complete Angler: "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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 246 pagine
...Barnfield's authorship. 3 Isaac Walton's well-known reference did much to maintain the fame of the lyric: — "As I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me; 'twas a handsome milkmaid: she east away all care and sang like a nightingale.... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 478 pagine
...I thought, as the poet has happily exprest it, I was for that time lifted above earth ; And possest joys not promis'd in my birth. 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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pagine
...hath happily expressed it, "I was for that time lifted above earth. And posaess'd joys not promised 's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up a second pleasure entertained me; 'twas a handsome milkmaid, that had not yet attained so much age and... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1910 - 540 pagine
...content, that I thought, as the poet has exprest it, I was for the time lifted above earth; And possest joys not promis'd in my birth. As I left this place, and entered the next field, a second pleasure entertained me ; 't was a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained... | |
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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... 
