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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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An Old Shropshire Oak, Volume 3

John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 pages
...delightful proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the well enchanting skill of music ; and forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth...corner ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the weaning of the mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome...
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A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose: From American and Foreign Authors ...

Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 pages
...Act i. Sc. 1. Poetry is the child of nature. 4218 Shirley : Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Preface. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. 4219 Sir Philip Sidney : The Defence of Poesy. The only fit speech for music — music,...
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The History of Sudbury, Massachusetts. 1638-1889

Alfred Sereno Hudson - 1889 - 768 pages
...Captain Hobbs and Chief Sackett. — Sketch of Capt. Josiah Brown. — List of Captain Brown's Troopers. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. HAVING considered the records of a short interval of peace in...
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The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry

Philip Sidney - 1890 - 206 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,...wellenchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he 25 cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner,...
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The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry

Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 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,...wellenchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he 2s cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner,...
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Aristotle on the Art of Poetry: A Lecture with Two Appendices

Arthur Octavius Prickard - 1891 - 196 pages
...pleasure which the Epic poet effects he does not explain ; but Sir Philip Sidney will tell us : — " And with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with...the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue." And so of Lyric. What does Aristotle contribute to our knowledge about Poetry as a whole ? He ventures...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - 1891 - 568 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,...forsooth, he cometh unto you, — with a tale which hokleth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner ; and, pretending no more, doth intend...
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The Sewanee Review, Volume 5

1897 - 552 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...the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue". In sum, his argument is that poetry includes ethics and is yet more effectual in that it adds a grace...
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Familiar Talks on English Literature: A Manual Embracing the Great Epochs of ...

Abby Sage Richardson - 1892 - 460 pages
...Now therein, of all sciences is our poet the monarch. 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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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 9

Henry Morley - 1892 - 532 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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