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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ... - Page 12
by George Walker - 1825 - 615 pages
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful hen he will ; mother of God ! he shall wear holdcth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner ; and pretending no more, doth intend...
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The Middle States, a Handbook for Travellers: A Guide to the Chief Cities ...

Moses Foster Sweetser - 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;...
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Essays from the North American Review

Allen Thorndike Rice - 1879 - 528 pages
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...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....
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A Thousand Thoughts from Various Authors

Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pages
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...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....
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Boys and their ways, by one who knows them

Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the willenchanting 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 virtue,...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Sources Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 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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A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading ...

Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 pages
...delightfull proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchaunting skill of Musicke; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you —...the chimney corner. And, pretending no more, doth intende the winning of the mind from wickednesse to vertue; even as the childe is often brought to...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 pages
...words set with 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 virtue;...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting sktll of musie; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner; and pretending no more, doth intend the winuing of the mind from wickeduess to virtue;...
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Development of English Literature and Language

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...cometh unto yon, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of...mind from wickedness to virtue; even as the child u often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste....
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