| 1862 - 538 pages
...accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he couieth 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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,... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...them ; but they are the money of fools. The Leviathan. Part i. Ch. 4. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. The Defence of Poesy. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found... | |
| Society of the Army of the Tennessee - 1893 - 638 pages
...institutions. That mute monument will ever illustrate an eventful era in our national history. •' It cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner." Comrades of the great commander, those silent, lips will break into voice, inarticulate yet audible,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 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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