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" ... 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 chimney-corner... "
A Renegade Poet: And Other Essays - Page 237
by Francis Thompson - 1910 - 344 pages
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The Pilgrim Fathers of New England: A History

William Carlos Martyn - 1867 - 486 pages
...With the 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...
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Records of Noble Lives

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 pages
...with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words set with delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or...well-enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, fursooth, he Cometh unto you, with a talc which hotdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner;...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 122

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1867 - 606 pages
...resistless stream,' &c. — Memoir of H. Coleridge, p. xxxix. t 'Fraser.' in fiction 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 the mind from wickedness to virtue,...
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The class and standard series of reading books. 5 pt. [in 7].

Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...CODE. BY CHARLES BILTON, BA BOOK V. A POETICAL READER SUITABLE FOE ALL CLASSES OF SCHOOLS. ' The poet Cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for. the welL*,wett&imng skill of music.'— Sir Philip Sidney. LONDON : LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1868. STANDARD...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 37

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...
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Choice Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief English ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness; but he cometh to you with words...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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Home Pictures of English Poets, for Fireside and Schoolroom

Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pages
...not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words...skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh uuto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner ; and pretending...
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An Apologie for Poetrie, 1595

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,...from the chimney corner. And pretending no more, doth intende the winning of the mind from wickednelTe to venue."! • p 24. t p. *o. BIBLIOGRAPHY. AN APOLOGIE...
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The Bentley Ballads: Comprising The Tipperary Hall Ballads, Now First ...

1869 - 344 pages
...BILLING, PBIMTEB, GWLlJFOttD. PREFACE TO THE THlRD EDlTlON. " He beginneth not with obscure definitions, but 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 ; — he cometh to you with a tale, which holdeth...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...; but 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 not my...
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