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" But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the... "
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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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 3

1856 - 374 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,...from play, and old men from the chimney corner ; and, pretendinp no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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 chimneycorner; 1 and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue,...
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. The Defence of Poesy. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more...
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Characters and Criticisms, Volume 2

William Alfred Jones - 1857 - 286 pages
...proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well-enchanting skill of musick, and with with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale,...virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take moat wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste ; which if one should begin...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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 chimneycorner ;' and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue,...
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The Seaboard and the Down; Or, My Parish in the South

John Wood Warter - 1860 - 530 pages
...And when I have heard my old friend tell his ftories, I have conftantly thought with Sir P. Sidney, " He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children...no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickednefs to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take moft Ovid, Met. x. 5'9Sir Philip...
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The Seaboard and the Down; Or, My Parish in the South

John Wood Warter - 1860 - 526 pages
...And when I have heard my old friend tell his ftories, I have conftantly thought with Sir P. Sidney, " He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children...no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickednefs to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take moft Ovid, Met. x. 519. Sir Philip...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 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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A Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1862 - 588 pages
...with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the will-enchanting skill of music, and with a tale, — forsooth, he...which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimneycorner, and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue....
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London society, Volume 1

1862 - 538 pages
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he couieth to you with words set with delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...well-enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he couieth unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner...
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