| Cheshire (England) - 1879 - 244 pages
...winters evenings fall early (sitting at her merry wheele) she sings a defiance to the giddy wheele of Fortune. She doth all things with so sweet a grace, it seemes ignorance will not suffer her to doe ill, beeing her minde is to doe well. She bestowes her... | |
| Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...felled them. Her breath is her own, which scents all the year long of June, like a newmade haycock. She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart...fall early, sitting at her merry wheel, she sings defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune. She doth all things with so sweet a grace, it seems ignorance... | |
| James Hain Friswell - Authors - 1880 - 380 pages
...felled them. Her breath is her own, which scents all the year long of June, like a new-made haycock. She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart...fall early, sitting at her merry wheel, she sings defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune. She doth all things with so sweet a grace, it seems ignorance... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...h.art soft with pity; i:nd when winter evenings fall ecrly, fitting at her merry v.hecl, she sings defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune. She doth all things with HO sweet a grace, it seems ignorance will not suffer her to do ill, being her mind is lo do well. She... | |
| Arthur Joseph Munby - 1880 - 116 pages
...sooty face or horny hands ? Sir Thomas Overbury, indeed, says of his Fairs and Happy Milke-Maid, that she makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pittie : but then she was no heroine ; and what he says of her is as rare as it is beautiful. No —... | |
| Arthur Joseph Munby - 1880 - 116 pages
...sooty face or horny hands ? Sir Thomas Overbury, indeed, says of his Faire and Happy Milke-Maid, that she makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pittie : but then she was no heroine ; and what he says of her is as rare as it is beautiful. No—... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 pages
...makes her hand hard with labour ,iud her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fail i ark (sitting at her merry wheel) she sings a defiance...giddy wheel of fortune. She doth all things with so eweet a grace, it seems ignorance will not suffer her to do ill, beim; Ьл mind is to do well. She... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1886 - 304 pages
...which scents all the year long of June, like a new-made hay-cock. She makes her hand hard with labor, and her heart soft with pity ; and when winter evenings...fall early, sitting at her merry wheel, she sings defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune. She bestows her year's wages at next fair, and, in choosing... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - Literary Criticism - 1890 - 320 pages
...which scents all the year long of June, like a new-made hay-cock. She makes her hand hard with labor, and her heart soft with pity; and when winter evenings...fall early, sitting at her merry wheel, she sings defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune. She bestows her year's wages at next fair, and, in choosing... | |
| Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 pages
...which scents, all the year long, of June, like a new-made haycock. She makes her hand hard with labor, and her heart soft with pity; and when winter evenings fall early, sitting at her merry wheel, she bids defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune. She doth all things with so sweet a grace, it seems ignor.... | |
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