| Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1899 - 536 pages
...into the way as will entice any man to enter into it. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, but cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion,...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... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he couieth e lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians,...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... | |
| English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness;...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... | |
| Moses Foster Sweetser - Middle Atlantic States - 1876 - 562 pages
...plan of rooms, address "The Arlington," Washington, I). C. T. EOESSLE & SON, Owners and Proprietors. ' "He cometh unto you with a Tale which holdeth children from play, and old- men from the CMmney- Corner. " — SIR Pomp Smjnrr. ALDRICH'S WRITINGS. MARJORIE DAW, and Other People. Cloth, $1.50;... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 pages
...doubtfulness; but he cometh to you with words 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 holdclh children from play, and old men from the chimney corner; and pretending no more, doth intend... | |
| Allen Thorndike Rice - American essays - 1879 - 506 pages
...you may long to pass farther. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness,...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-comer ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue.... | |
| Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue.... | |
| Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...witii obscure definitions ; which must blur ttie margin with interpretations, and load the memory witli doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words set...tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which hokleth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner; and pretending no more, doth intend... | |
| Boys - Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...you may long to pass farther. He beginneth not with obscure definition, which must blur the margin with interpretations and load the memory with doubtfulness,...proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the willenchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you — with a tale which... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1881 - 892 pages
...Ch. 23. 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... | |
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