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" ... 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 chimney... "
Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré ...: Consisting of a Diary of Brussels, and ... - Page 345
by Hugh Swinton Legaré - 1845
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The Works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, Kt. in Prose and Verse: I. A ...

Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...for the well-inchanting skill afmufak, and with a tale, forfootV;, C 3 he The Defenfe of Poefy. be cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children...no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedneis to virtue ; eveu as the child is often brought to take moft wholefbme things by hiding them...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 205

1907 - 584 pages
...gives us (to quote Sidney again) ' what' soever may make the too-loved earth more lovely.' . . . ' With ' a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a...from play, and old men from the chimney-corner.' And that the tale so holds us is a fact that can never be explained. ABT. V.— COLONIAL PREFERENTIAL TARIFFS....
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review, Volume 2

Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1805 - 692 pages
...with or prepared for the well enchanting fkill of mufick : and with a tale, (forfooth) he cometh to you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner." EQUALITY. THÏ fimple word equality ha» performed wondrous miracles. ...It has always...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...you with words set in delightful pron} either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh...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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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...words set_ in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, . the well enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh...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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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...definitions; which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; 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...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...not with obn scure definitions, but he cometh to you with words get in delightful pro-. " portion, , — he cometh unt* you with a tale, which holdcth " children from piny, and old men from the chimney...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 524 pages
...definitions; which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness ; 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 tal«, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which...
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The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 6

1815 - 606 pages
...Spenser and a Sydney. It might be said of it, in the language of the Arcadian, " Behold ! he coraeth to you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." Yet, after all, we cannot let Mr. Wordsworth escape from our hands without correction....
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

1824 - 378 pages
...definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion,...pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the * We have here, undoubtedly, the origin of Shakspeare's — " That elder ears played truant at his...
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