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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 155
by George Burnett - 1807
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Helionde, Or, Adventures in the Sun

Sydney Whiting - 1855 - 458 pages
...added Sir Philip Sidney's quaint description of what a poet ought to be ; who winds up as follows : " He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play ; he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...
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Laconics, Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors: In Three Volumes, Volume 3

1856 - 374 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...from play, and old men from the chimney corner ; and, pretendinp no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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 chimneycorner; 1 and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue,...
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. The Defence of Poesy. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more...
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The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now ...

Sir Thomas Overbury - 1856 - 418 pages
...October 8, 29, St. Mark's Crescent, Regent's Park. THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. " He cometh upon you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner." SIR P. SIDNEY'S Defence of Poesy. HE tale of Sir Thomas Overbury is indeed one of...
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The Miscellaneous Works in Prose and Verse of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt., Now ...

Sir Thomas Overbury - 1856 - 400 pages
...Gttotn-8, • 89, St. 1ttrU$ Craetxt, Rtgnt'i P*rk. \ I THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. " He cometh upon you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-comer." SIR F. SIIINEV'H Defence of Potty. TIE tale of Sir Thomas Overbury is indeed one of...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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 chimneycorner ;' and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue,...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author ...

Philip Sidney - 1860 - 404 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 ;* * This is conceived to have suggested Shakespeare's exquisite description, — and,...
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A Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1862 - 588 pages
...with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the will-enchanting skill of music, and with a tale, — forsooth, he...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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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 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...
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