 | Charles Asbury Stephens - Animals - 1872 - 326 pages
..."Afloat in the Forest. Specimen Illustration fromMayne Reid's Tales, Second Serie ALDRICH'S BAD BOY. " HE COMETH UNTO YOU WITH A TALE WHICH HOLDETH CHILDREN FROM PLAY AND OLD HEN FKOM THE CHIMNEY-CORNER." — Sir Philip Sidney. The Story of a Bad Boy. By THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH.... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 622 pages
...accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting 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... | |
 | Frederick A. Laing - English language - 1873 - 262 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."... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 pages
...always mingle with my reminiscences of Auteuil. OLD ENGLISH PROSE ROMANCES.* 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. SIR PHILIP SYDNEY. E of the most interesting and instructive walks of literature... | |
 | 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 more than with... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1876 - 564 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... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he y2b L؎ $ yB}H& & wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...well-enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdcth as whom washed from spot of childbed taint Purification...did save, And such as yet once more I trust to ha wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1899 - 536 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.' 1 The effect of poetry upon character, Sidney argues, is the effect of example rather than of precept... | |
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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... 
