 | Virginia Woolf - English literature - 1925 - 348 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue ; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other...should begin to tell them the nature of the Aloes or Rhubarb arum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue : even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other...which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of Aloes or Rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their Physick at their ears than at their mouth.... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1915 - 504 pages
...other äs have a pleasant taste; which, if one should begin to teil them the nature of aloes or rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth. So it is in men (most of which are childish in the best things , till they be cradled... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue : even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other...which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of aloes or rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth.... | |
 | Dorothy Connell - Literary Criticism - 1977 - 190 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue — even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other...which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of aloes or rbubarbarum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their... | |
 | Philip Sidney - History - 1983 - 580 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue: even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other...if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes40 or rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their... | |
 | Blair Worden, William Worden - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 444 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue — even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste . . ..~ So the poet has guile. He says more than he seems to say. Sometimes he says it obscurely or... | |
 | Wayne Erickson - History - 1996 - 168 pages
...otherwise dry subject matter — history and philosophy — "even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste."" But Spenser's tone and emphasis diverge considerably from Sidney's. Sidney disparages the "thorny arguments"... | |
 | Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester, Gareth Roberts - History - 1998 - 392 pages
...of fiction to a doctor administering sweetened medicine, 'even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste'.94 Sidney defended poetry from the charge that it threatened to seduce men from obligations,... | |
 | Jeffrey Walker - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 411 pages
...intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste" (92). Or again, when Sidney defends the poet against the Platonic (and later Christian) objection that... | |
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... with a tale, forsooth; he cometh unto you, 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 ; even as the child is often brought... 
