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" ... 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 ; even as the child is often brought... "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 156
by George Burnett - 1807
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 pages
...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...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth : so is it in men (most of whom are childish in the best things till they be cradled...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take ; the poet is, indeed, the right popular philosopher....beasts, make many, more beastly than beasts, begin to at their mouth ; so it is in men (most of them are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take n white, pure cars than their mouth. So is it in men — most of whom are childish in the best things, till they...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...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...receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears thun their month. So is it in men— most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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Development of English Literature and Language

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 pages
...intend the winning of the 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. So is it in men, — must of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled in their graves....
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Prose extracts [&c.].

John Edwin Nixon - 1885 - 256 pages
...the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue : even, as the child is often ' 5 brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste. SIE PHILIP SIDNEY. 165 38. Primum Argiae sacerdotis Cleobis et Biton filii praedicantur. Nota fabula...
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An Old Shropshire Oak, Volume 3

John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 pages
...virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such others as have a pleasant taste ; which, if one should begin...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth ' — a passage, I think, which rather tends to disprove the remark of Mr. Lloyd, that...
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Sir Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella und Defence of poesie: nach den ...

Philip Sidney - 1889 - 238 pages
...child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as haue a plesaunt taste: which if one should begin to tell them the nature of the8 Alloes, or Rhaharbrum they should receiue, wold sooner take their phisick at their eares then...
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The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry

Philip Sidney - 1890 - 210 pages
...wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them 30 in such other as have a pleasant taste, — which,...should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth. So is...
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The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry

Philip Sidney - 1890 - 206 pages
...wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them 30 , in such other as have a pleasant taste, — which,...should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth. So is...
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