| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - English fiction - 1894 - 322 pages
...There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees; humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; . . . here a shepherd's boy piping as though he should never be old; there a young shepherdess knitting,... | |
| Calendars - 1895 - 416 pages
...heights with stately trees : humble valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshment of silver rivers ; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers : thickets, which beiug lined with most pleasant shade were intressed so too by the cheerful disposition'of many well-tuned... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 498 pages
...valleys, whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadows enameled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers; thickets,...were witnessed so too by the cheerful disposition of so many well-tuned birds; each pasture stored with sheep, feeding with sober security, while the pretty... | |
| German philology - 1897 - 756 pages
..."There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees ; humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver rivers; meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye -pleasing flowers; thickets which, being lined with most pleasant shade, were witnessed so to,... | |
| John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 620 pages
...There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees ; humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep, breeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort.... | |
| Literature - 1901 - 686 pages
...THERE were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees ; humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...well-tuned birds ; each pasture stored with sheep, breeding with sober security, while the pretty lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dam's comfort.... | |
| William Hazlitt - English essays - 1902 - 438 pages
...There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble valleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition of many well-tuned birds; each pasture stored with sheep feeding with... | |
| Mrs. F. S. Boas - England - 1903 - 378 pages
...there were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble vallies, whose bare estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers ; . . . each pasture stored with sheep, . . . here a shepherd's boy piping, as though he should never... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...There were hills which garnished their proud heights with stately trees : humble vaJleys whose base estate seemed comforted with the refreshing of silver...meadows enamelled with all sorts of eye-pleasing flowers j thickets, which being lined with most pleasant shade were witnessed so to, by the cheerful disposition... | |
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