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" But 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... "
Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors - Page 112
by John Timbs - 1829
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he couieth e lie itself. One of the later school of the Grecians,...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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Typical selections from the best English authors, with ..., Volume 1

English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness;...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...
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The Middle States, a Handbook for Travellers: A Guide to the Chief Cities ...

Moses Foster Sweetser - Middle Atlantic States - 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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Foliorum centuriae, selections for translation into Latin and Greek prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 pages
...doubtfulness; but he cometh to you with words 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 holdclh children from play, and old men from the chimney corner; and pretending no more, doth intend...
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Essays from the North American Review

Allen Thorndike Rice - American essays - 1879 - 506 pages
...you may long to pass farther. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness,...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-comer ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue....
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A Thousand Thoughts from Various Authors

Arthur B. Davison - English literature - 1880 - 396 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness...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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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 842 pages
...witii obscure definitions ; which must blur ttie margin with interpretations, and load the memory witli doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words set...tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which hokleth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner; and pretending no more, doth intend...
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Boys and their ways, by one who knows them

Boys - Boys - 1880 - 362 pages
...you may long to pass farther. He beginneth not with obscure definition, which must blur the margin with interpretations and load the memory with doubtfulness,...proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the willenchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you — with a tale which...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Sources Passages and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1881 - 892 pages
...Ch. 23. 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 more than with...
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The middle States: a handbook for travellers [ed. by M.F. Sweetser].4th ed

Moses Foster Sweetser - 1881 - 572 pages
...rooms, address "The Arlington," Washington, DC T. ROESSLE & SON, Owners and Proprietors. "Be eometh unto you with a Tale which, holdeth children from play, and old men from the Chimney-Corner." — SIR Рншр SiDNET. ______ ALDMCH'ITWRITINGS. MARJORIE DAW, and Other People....
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