 ... 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 Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...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 - United States - 1893 - 638 pages
...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 - History - 1867 - 440 pages
...of the suns." o 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-corner." Sia 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) - English literature - 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 - Christianity - 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... | |
 | Authors, English - 1869 - 344 pages
...either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music ; — and with a tale ; — he cometh to you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner." — SIB PHILIP SYDNEY. THE ENGLISH BALLAD, which in old times was a tale or story... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1869 - 84 pages
...with, or prepared for the well inchaunting skill of Muficke; and with a tale forfooth he commeth vnto you : with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. And pretending no more, doth intende the winning of the mind from wickednelTe to venue."! • p 24.... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...are the money of fools. The Leviathan. Part i. Ch. iv. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. TTE cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth -*• children from play, and old men from the chimney c orner. The Dcfence of Poesy. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglas, that I found not my... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh uuto 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,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 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,... | |
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