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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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The Defence of Poësie: And Certain Sonnets

Philip Sidney - 1906 - 128 pages
...winning of the minde from wickedness to virtue; even as the child is often brought to take most wholsom things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant...should begin to tell them the nature of the Aloes or Rnubarbarum they should receiv, would sooner take their physick at their ears than at their mouth,...
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The British classical authors: with biographical notices. On the basis of a ...

Ludwig Herrig - 1906 - 844 pages
...intend the winning of 66 the mind from wickedness to virtue; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste; which, if one should eo begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their...
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T. Lvcreti Cari De Rervm Natvra Libri Sex

Titus Lucretius Carus - 1907 - 818 pages
...23, ' 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 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.' Hor....
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T. Lvcreti Cari De Rervm Natvra Libri Sex

Titus Lucretius Carus - 1907 - 840 pages
...have a pleasant taste, — which, if one 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.' Hor. S. I, I, 25, 'ut pueris olim dant crustula Mandi | doctores, elementa velint...
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The Defence of Poesie: A Letter to Q. Elizabeth; A Defence of Leicester

Philip Sidney - 1908 - 304 pages
...intend the winning of the minde from wickednes to vertue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasaunt taste: which if one should begin to tell them the nature of the Allces or Rhabarbarum they...
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A Defence of Poesie and Poems

Philip Sidney - 1909 - 204 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 it is in men (most of them are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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The Stoddard Library: Shakespeare-Taine

John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 490 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 which are childish in the best things,) till they be cradled...
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A Renegade Poet: And Other Essays

Francis Thompson - 1910 - 356 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue, even as a child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other...should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarbum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than their mouth. So is...
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A Renegade Poet: And Other Essays

Francis Thompson - 1910 - 372 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue, even as a child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other...should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarbum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than their mouth. So is...
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English Essays: From Sir Philip Sidney to Macaulay

Charles W - 1910 - 466 pages
...even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as to have a pleasant taste, — which, if one 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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