 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he Cometh unto chimney corner ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 256 Seiten
...cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, aud 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 hiding them in such other as... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 390 Seiten
...in the " Defence of Poesy" before appealed to. It will recal to your mind the lines of Shakspeare2, who possibly had read it. " Now therein, of all sciences,...lines alluded to are in " Love's Labour's Lost." They sre these : " Aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished : So sweet... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 Seiten
...cometh unto you with a tale which holdcth 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, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 Seiten
...One thinks of Sir Philip Sidney's plea for the true poet : " With a tale, forsooth, he corneth unto you : with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." The tale proceeds in vivid and fascinating narrative ; and what I wish to lay stress... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...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, even as the... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...that covers all human thoughts. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. 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... | |
 | Sir Thomas Overbury - 1856 - 418 Seiten
...October 8, 29, St. Mark's Crescent, Regent's Park. THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. " He cometh upon you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner." SIR P. SIDNEY'S Defence of Poesy. HE tale of Sir Thomas Overbury is indeed one of fearful mystery.... | |
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... 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... 
