 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1844 - 676 pages
...fair objects of their affections. THE GENIUS OF THEOCRITUS. " And with a tale, forsooth, he cometh to you — with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner."- — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. Theocritus ! Theocritus ! ah ! thou had 'at pleasant dreams, Of the crystal... | |
 | Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1845 - 606 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...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... | |
 | 1847 - 592 pages
...with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas that I found not my heart moved more... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 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...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...but he comcth to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or pivpurrd ues lie so mix'd, that she Nor wholly stands condenmM nor wholly free; Then like her injurM l n tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner ; and pretending no more,... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1849 - 256 pages
...delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well-enchanting skill of musick, and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, aud old men from the chimney corner ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 390 pages
...with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh to 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... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 408 pages
...with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh to 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... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...described? One thinks of Sir Philip Sidney's plea for the true poet : " With a tale, forsooth, he corneth unto you : with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." The tale proceeds in vivid and fascinating narrative ; and what I wish to lay stress upon is that he... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 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 unto you with a tale which holdcth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner;1 and pretending no more, doth intend... | |
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But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting 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... 
