| Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...; but they are the money of fools. The Leviathan. Part i. Ch. iv. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. TTE cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth -*• children from play, and old men from the chimney c orner. The Dcfence of Poesy. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my... | |
| English prose literature - 1872 - 556 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,...music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner ; and pretending no more, doth... | |
| Frederick A. Laing - English language - 1873 - 264 pages
...farther. He beginneth not with obscure definitions; .... but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue." SIR WALTER RALEIGH (6. 1552, d. 1618).— This was the most extraordinary of all the writers of this... | |
| Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 590 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....unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from piny, and old men from the chimney corner ; and, pretendmg no more, doth intend the winning of the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 866 pages
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtiulness ; 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."... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...Broohe. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. The Defence of Poesy. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. Ibid. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...Roydon. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. 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 than with a... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he couieth to you with words set in delightful l of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at...pleasure, as with poets ; nor for advantage, as with th chimney-corner ; * and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to... | |
| Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1876 - 564 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;... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1899 - 536 pages
...into it. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, but 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.' 1 The effect of poetry upon character, Sidney argues, is the effect of example rather... | |
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