 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 404 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-corner ;* * This is conceived to have suggested Shakespeare's exquisite description, — and,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 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 chimney-corner ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1862 - 588 pages
...beginneth ""'.I THE POET'S GREATNESS. S98 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 will-enchanting skill of music, and with a tale, — forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which... | |
 | 1862 - 538 pages
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he couieth to you with words set with delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or...well-enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he couieth unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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;...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,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with ohscure definitions, which must blur the margent 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,... | |
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 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...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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 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; but he cometh to you with words either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...definitions, which must blur the margent \vilh interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness; hut he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion,...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,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...them ; but they are the money of fools. The Leviathan. Part i. Ch. 4. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. The Defence of Poesy. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found... | |
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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... 
