 ... 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...  London society - Page 441862Full view - About this book
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pages
...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 chimneycorner;1 and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue,... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1867 - 440 pages
...process of the suns." o Wilson's Pilgrim Fathers, pp. 487, 488. CHAPTER XXV. INCIDENTS. • " He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth Children from play and old men from the chimney-corner." Sia PHILIP SIDNEY. THE life of the Pilgrim fathers in these first years of their settlement was full... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1893 - 638 pages
...institutions. That mute monument will ever illustrate an eventful era in our national history. •' It cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner." Comrades of the great commander, those silent, lips will break into voice, inarticulate... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1867 - 486 pages
...process of the suns. " ° Wilson's Pilgrim Fathers, pp. 487, 488. CHAPTER XXV. INCIDENTS. " He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth Children from play and old men from the chimney-comer." SIB PHILIP SIDNEY. THE life of the Pilgrim Fathers in these first years of their settlement... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 622 pages
...cometh unto you with words set in delightful pro' portion for the will-enchanting skill of music, and with a tale ' which holdeth children from play and old men from the chim' ney corner.' His hearty appreciation, too, of the older ballad of ' Chevy-Chase ' — ' I never... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...they are the money of fools. The Leviathan. Part i. Ch. iv. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. TTE cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth -*• children from play, and old men from the chimney c orner. The Dcfence of Poesy. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1869 - 84 pages
...with, or prepared for the well inchaunting skill of Muficke; and with a tale forfooth he commeth vnto you : with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. And pretending no more, doth intende the winning of the mind from wickednelTe to venue."!... | |
 | 1869 - 344 pages
...petit roi c'ctuit la ! La, la! THEOCRITUS. BY CH LANGHORNE. " And with a tale, forsooth he cometh to you —with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." BIB PHILIP SIDNEY. THEOCRITUS! Theocritus! ah! thou hadst pleasant dreams, Of the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...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 wicnedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them... | |
 | Charles Asbury Stephens - 1872 - 326 pages
...the Forest. Specimen Illustration fromMayne Reid's Tales, Second Serie ALDRICH'S BAD BOY. " HE COMETH UNTO YOU WITH A TALE WHICH HOLDETH CHILDREN FROM PLAY AND OLD HEN FKOM THE CHIMNEY-CORNER." — Sir Philip Sidney. The Story of a Bad Boy. By THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH.... | |
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