 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1893 - 638 pages
...institutions. 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 - Massachusetts - 1867 - 486 pages
...With the process of the suns. " ° 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-comer." SIB PHILIP SIDNEY. THE life of the Pilgrim Fathers in these first years of their settlement... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Biography - 1867 - 370 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beg'mneth 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 with delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1868 - 216 pages
...CODE. BY CHARLES BILTON, BA BOOK V. A POETICAL READER SUITABLE FOE ALL CLASSES OF SCHOOLS. ' The poet Cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for. the welL*,wett&imng skill of music.'— Sir Philip Sidney. LONDON : LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1868. STANDARD... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent 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,... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - English poetry - 1869 - 306 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness...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... | |
 | Authors, English - 1869 - 344 pages
...BILLING, PBIMTEB, GWLlJFOttD. PREFACE TO THE THlRD EDlTlON. " He beginneth not with obscure definitions, 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 ; — he cometh to you with a tale, which holdeth... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...; but they 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... | |
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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... 
