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The Works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, Kt. in Prose and Verse: I. A ... - Page 22
by Philip Sidney - 1724
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Characters and Criticisms, Volume 2

William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1857 - 280 pages
...accompanied with, or prepared for the well-enchanting skill of musick, and with 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;...
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Characters and Criticisms, Volume 2

William Alfred Jones - American literature - 1857 - 286 pages
...accompanied with, or prepared for the well-enchanting skill of musick, and with 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...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 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,...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 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,...
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The Life and Times of Sir Philip Sidney

S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 324 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 chimney corner ; * and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...
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The Life and Times of Sir Philip Sidney

S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 326 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 biding them...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author ...

Philip Sidney - 1860 - 404 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 chimney-corner ;* * This is conceived to have suggested Shakespeare's exquisite description, — and, pretending no...
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The Seaboard and the Down; Or, My Parish in the South

John Wood Warter - Tarring, West, Eng. (Parish) - 1860 - 526 pages
...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 from play, and old men from the chimney corner : and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickednefs to virtue...
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The Seaboard and the Down; Or, My Parish in the South

John Wood Warter - Tarring, West, Eng. (Parish) - 1860 - 530 pages
...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 from play, and old men from the chimney corner : and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickednefs to virtue...
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A Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1862 - 588 pages
...accompanied with or prepared for the will-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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