| Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...well-inchanting skill afmufak, and with a tale, forfootV;, C 3 he The Defenfe of Poefy. be cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play,...no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedneis to virtue ; eveu as the child is often brought to take moft wholefbme things by hiding them... | |
| 1907 - 584 pages
...what' soever may make the too-loved earth more lovely.' . . . ' With ' a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth ' children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.' And that the tale so holds us is a fact that can never be explained. ABT. V.— COLONIAL PREFERENTIAL TARIFFS.... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1805 - 692 pages
...accompanied with or prepared for the well enchanting fkill of mufick : and with a tale, (forfooth) he cometh to you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner." EQUALITY. THÏ fimple word equality ha» performed wondrous miracles. ...It has always... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...with, or prepared for, . the well enchanting 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 chimney corner ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to •virtue... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...with, or prepared for, the well enchanting 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 chimney corner ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...with, or prepared for, the well enchanting 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 chimney corner ; and pretending no more, doth in? tend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue... | |
| 1815 - 612 pages
...hearers a Spenser and a Sydney. It might be said of it, in the language of the Arcadian, " Behold ! he cometh to you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." Yet, after all, we cannot let Mr. Wordsworth escape from our hands without correction.... | |
| English literature - 1815 - 606 pages
...Spenser and a Sydney. It might be said of it, in the language of the Arcadian, " Behold ! he coraeth to you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." Yet, after all, we cannot let Mr. Wordsworth escape from our hands without correction.... | |
| Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play,...pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the * We have here, undoubtedly, the origin of Shakspeare's — " That elder ears played truant at his... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 378 pages
...with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play,...pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the * We have here, undoubtedly, the origin of Shakspeare's — " That elder ears played truant at his... | |
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