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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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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 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...unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from piny, and old men from the chimney corner ; and, pretendmg no more, doth intend the winning of the...
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The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 868 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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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pages
...Broohe. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. The Defence of Poesy. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. Ibid. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...Roydon. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. 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 than with a...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting should be in it, that men should love lies ; where...pleasure, as with poets ; nor for advantage, as with th chimney-corner ; * and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 564 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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The Church Quarterly Review, Volume 48

Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1899 - 536 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.' 1 The effect of poetry upon character, Sidney argues, is the effect of example rather...
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Foliorum centuriae, selections for translation into Latin and Greek prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 pages
...margin with interpretations and load the memory with doubtfulness; but he cometh to you with words either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well...tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdclh children from play, and old men from the chimney corner; and pretending no more, doth intend...
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The Middle States, a Handbook for Travellers: A Guide to the Chief Cities ...

Moses Foster Sweetser - 1876 - 562 pages
...plan of rooms, address "The Arlington," Washington, I). C. T. EOESSLE & SON, Owners and Proprietors. ' "He cometh unto you with a Tale which holdeth children from play, and old- men from the CMmney- Corner. " — SIR Pomp Smjnrr. ALDRICH'S WRITINGS. MARJORIE DAW, and Other People. Cloth, $1.50;...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting at son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and fai holdcth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner ; and pretending no more, doth intend...
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