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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ... - Page 12
by George Walker - 1825 - 615 pages
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting lamis hath murder'd sleep. And therefore Cawdor Shall.../."'.". Who was it that thus cry'd ! Why, worthy Thane aa the child is often brought to take most whole* some things, by hiding them in such other as have...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 4

Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for...which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...
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New York Illustrated Magazine Annual

1847 - 592 pages
...philosopher. His discourse carries an apparent shining. He cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...pivpurrd for, the well enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with n , let me speak ; He cannot bend her, anj he would...share her wandering heart : Though unpolluted yet aa the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a...
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Essays Upon Authors and Books

William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 256 pages
...delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well-enchanting skill of musick, and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, aud old men from the chimney corner ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh...virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take moat «holesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste ; which, if one should...
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Appendicia Et Pertinentiae: Or, Parochial Fragments Relating to the Parish ...

John Wood Warter - 1853 - 390 pages
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you in words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh to you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner ; and, pretending...
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Appendicia Et Pertinentiae; Or, Parochial Fragments Relating to the Parish ...

John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness; but he cometh to you in words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh to you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner; and, pretending...
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdcth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner;1 and pretending no more, doth intend...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Issues 1-50

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...described? One thinks of Sir Philip Sidney's plea for the true poet : " With a tale, forsooth, he corneth unto you : with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." The tale proceeds in vivid and fascinating narrative ; and what I wish to lay stress upon is that he...
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