... he cometh to you 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 unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the... Elizabethan Critical Essays - Page xxviedited by - 1904Full view - About this book
| Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...for the 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, and old men from the chimney-corner ; and> pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedneis to virtue... | |
| 1907 - 584 pages
...gives us (to quote Sidney again) ' what' soever may make the too-loved earth more lovely.' . . . ' With ' a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a...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... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1805 - 692 pages
...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 been a moft... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness; but he cometh to you with words set_ in delightful proportion, either accompanied with,...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 ; even as... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with,...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 ; even as... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...an(j joa{j tne memory with doubtfulness ; but cc» *neth to you with words set in delightful pron} either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well...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 ; even as the... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied \vith, or prepared for. the well enchanting skill of music...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 ; even as... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music ; and with a tal«, 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 ; even as the... | |
| 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. His extreme... | |
| Books - 1824 - 378 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...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner;* and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the * We have here, undoubtedly,... | |
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