 ... 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, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 597edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | John Wood Warter - Tarring, West, Eng. (Parish) - 1860 - 526 pages
...heard my old friend tell his ftories, I have conftantly thought with Sir P. Sidney, " He cometh 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 wickednefs to virtue ; even as... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Tarring, West, Eng. (Parish) - 1860 - 530 pages
...heard my old friend tell his ftories, I have conftantly thought with Sir P. Sidney, " He cometh 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 wickednefs to virtue ; even as... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 404 pages
...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 ;* * This is conceived to have suggested Shakespeare's exquisite description, — and,... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1862 - 588 pages
...with or prepared for the will-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 chimneycorner, and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue.... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...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 ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...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 chimneycorner ; * and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue,... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...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 ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the... | |
 | Wise sayings - Maxims - 1864 - 394 pages
...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 ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...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 ; and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...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 chimneycorner;1 and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue,... | |
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