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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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Christian Reformer, Volume 1

1886 - 400 pages
...not seem to mean teaching. " He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness,...with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old rnen from the chimney-corner ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness...
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Literary leaves, or, Prose and verse: chiefly written in India, Volumes 1-2

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...you may Ion;: to pass farther. He beginnelh not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness;...but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportions, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of musick — and...
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Literary Leaves, Volume 2

David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 364 pages
...you may long to pass farther, lie beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness...but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportions, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of musick — and...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 2

David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 370 pages
...you may lons to pass farther. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness;...but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportions, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of musick — and...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Volume 2

David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 396 pages
...for, the well enchanting skill of musick — and with a tale, forsooth ; he cometh unto you with a a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." " Even those hard-hearted, evil men, who think virtue a school name, and despise the austere admonitions...
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Chapters on the Poets of Ancient Greece

Henry Alford - Greek poetry - 1841 - 272 pages
...gifted soul. CHAPTER IL HOMER. 11 He cometb to you with words set in delightful proportion, cither accompanied with or prepared for the well-enchanting...skill of music, and with a tale forsooth he cometh to you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." THESE,...
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The Monthly Review

Books - 1842 - 648 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,...a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale that holdeth children from play, and old-men from the chimney-corner ; and, pretending no more, doth...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...you may long to pass farther. He beginneth not with obscure definitions ; which must blur the margin # _ r~ !Jɕ1 " ;`M DXD5} 7L _ 8 C/ L kq 98 ... L b{d 8 ( z D Zc^ Ta 4 d賈H K僄 z j nI cither accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth,...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 16

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - English literature - 1844 - 676 pages
...fair objects of their affections. THE GENIUS OF THEOCRITUS. " And with a tale, forsooth, he cometh to you — with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner."- — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. Theocritus ! Theocritus ! ah ! thou had 'at pleasant dreams, Of the crystal...
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Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré ...: Consisting of a Diary of ..., Volume 2

Hugh Swinton Legaré - Attorneys general - 1845 - 606 pages
...definitionp, which must blur the margin with interpretations and load the memory with doubtfulness, hut cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion,...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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