 | Abraham Mills - 1851
...you may long to pass farther. He beginncth not with obscure definitions; which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness...cometh 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,... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853
...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; but he cometh to you in words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1853 - 369 Seiten
...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 ; but he cometh to you in words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 776 Seiten
...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;...tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdcth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner;1 and pretending no more, doth intend... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896
...described? One thinks of Sir Philip Sidney's plea for the true poet : " With a tale, forsooth, he corneth unto you : with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." The tale proceeds in vivid and fascinating narrative ; and what I wish to lay stress upon is that he... | |
 | Sydney Whiting - 1855 - 424 Seiten
...be ; who winds up as follows : " He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play ; he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the will-enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale." tastic cuttings in the thin, but dark and dense,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 776 Seiten
...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; 1 and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 358 Seiten
...sleep, the mantle that covers all human thoughts. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. The Defence of Poesy. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more... | |
 | Sir Thomas Overbury, Edward Francis Rimbault - 1856 - 311 Seiten
...October 8, 29, St. Mark's Crescent, Regent's Park. THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. " He cometh upon you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner." SIR P. SIDNEY'S Defence of Poesy. HE tale of Sir Thomas Overbury is indeed one of... | |
 | Sir Thomas Overbury, Edward Francis Rimbault - 1856 - 311 Seiten
...Gttotn-8, • 89, St. 1ttrU$ Craetxt, Rtgnt'i P*rk. \ I THE LIFE OF SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. " He cometh upon you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-comer." SIR F. SIIINEV'H Defence of Potty. TIE tale of Sir Thomas Overbury is indeed one of... | |
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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... 
