 | William Shakespeare - 1593 - 138 pages
...interesting book. § 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,...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 :... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1896 - 138 pages
...interesting book. § 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,...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... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins - Fishing - 1775 - 620 pages
...happily expreft it, Ivans for that time lifted above earth ; And poffeft joys not promis<d in my birth. As I left this place and entered into the next field, a fecond pleafure entertained me ; "twas a handfome milk-maid, that had not yet attained fo much age... | |
 | 1799 - 958 pages
...that • I thought, as the poet has hap« pily expreft it, ' I was for that time lifted above earth. 4 As I left this place and entered ' into the next field, a fecond plea' fure entertained me ; 'twas a ' handfomg milk^rnaid, that had • not yet attained fo... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...expressed it: t I was for that time lifted above earth ; And possessed joys not promised in my birtl:. As I left this place and entered into the next field,...men too often do ; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale ; her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it: it was that smooth song,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...expressed it: I was for that time lifted above earth ; And possessed joys not promised in my birth. As I left this place and entered into the next field,...that had not yet attained so much age and •wisdom a& to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...expressed it: I was for that time lifted above earth ; And possessed joys not promised in my birth. As I left this place and entered into the next field,...handsome milk-maid, that had not yet attained so much age arid wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too... | |
 | 1809 - 954 pages
...time lifted above earth. ' As I left this place and entered * into tbe next field, a second plea' sure entertained me ; 'twas a ' handsome milk-maid, that...so much age and ' wisdom as to load her mind with ' ялу fears of many things that will ' never be, as too many men too 4 often do ; but she cast away... | |
 | England - 1823 - 782 pages
...ed 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,...men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nigUtinVOL. XIV. gale : her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it; 'twas that smooth... | |
 | England - 1841 - 928 pages
...expressed it — ' I was for that time lifted above earth, And possessed joys not promised in my birth.' As I left this place, and entered into the next field,...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 ditty... | |
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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... 
