 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...for the well-inchanting skill afmufak, and with a tale, forfootV;, C 3 he The Defenfe of Poefy. be 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 wickedneis to virtue... | |
 | 1907 - 584 pages
...gives us (to quote Sidney again) ' what' soever may make the too-loved earth more lovely.' . . . ' With ' a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a...holdeth ' children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.' And that the tale so holds us is a fact that can never be explained. ABT. V.— COLONIAL... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1805 - 692 pages
...with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulnefs....but he comedí to you with words fet in delightful proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the well enchanting fkill of mufick : and with a tale, (forfooth) he cometh to you with a tale which holdeth children from... | |
 | 1815 - 606 pages
...Spenser and a Sydney. It might be said of it, in the language of the Arcadian, " Behold ! he coraeth to you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." Yet, after all, we cannot let Mr. Wordsworth escape from our hands without correction. His extreme... | |
 | 1824 - 378 pages
...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...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner;* and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the * We have here, undoubtedly,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 378 pages
...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...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner ;* and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the * We have here, undoubtedly,... | |
 | 1824 - 378 pages
...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...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner;* and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the * We have here, undoubtedly,... | |
 | 1826 - 450 pages
...with words set in delightful proportion, cither accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner ; and pretenling no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue,... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1831 - 368 pages
...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...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... | |
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But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either 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... 
