 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he comcth to you with words set in delightful proportion, either...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner;1 and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wicnedness to virtue,... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness...music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner ; and pretending no more, doth... | |
 | 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 - 590 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,...unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from piny, and old men from the chimney corner ; and, pretendmg no more, doth intend the winning of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 pages
...definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtiulness ; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful...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."... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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 than with a... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1876 - 564 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with ohscure 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-corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue;... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions ; which must blur the margin by the gift of a cardinal's hat, which drew from...hat when he will ; mother of God ! he shall wear holdcth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner ; and pretending no more, doth intend... | |
 | 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... | |
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But 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... 
