 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...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 child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Sussex (England) - 1853 - 390 pages
...with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh to you with a tale, which holdeth children from play,...no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue 3 ; even * The lines alluded to are in " Love's Labour's Lost." They sre these... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh to you with a tale, which holdeth children from play,...no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue 3 ; even ' The lines alluded to are in " Love's Labour's Lost." They ere these... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...cometh unto you with a tale which holdcth 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, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 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 than with a... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...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 chimneycorner; 1 and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the... | |
 | Sir Thomas Overbury - English literature - 1856 - 418 pages
...October 8, 29, St. Mark's Crescent, Regent's Park. THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. " He cometh upon you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner." SIR P. SIDNEY'S Defence of Poesy. HE tale of Sir Thomas Overbury is indeed one of fearful mystery.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Overbury - English literature - 1856 - 400 pages
...Gttotn-8, • 89, St. 1ttrU$ Craetxt, Rtgnt'i P*rk. \ I THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. " He cometh upon you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-comer." SIR F. SIIINEV'H Defence of Potty. TIE tale of Sir Thomas Overbury is indeed one of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...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...no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them... | |
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... 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 chimney... 
