 | Abby Sage Richardson - English literature - 1884 - 498 pages
...cometh unto you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the enchanting skill of music, and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale thatholdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner. And pretending no more, doth intend... | |
 | Christianity - 1886 - 470 pages
...work, nor his feebler strokes, but that he should seek to catch the secret of that spell whereby " he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner." Are there none of the great story-tellers of the past to whom we can go, as we go... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1886 - 562 pages
...upon us, and upon "the whole round world," that only God can know. GRANDMA THOBURN'S CHAIN. BY HKJ " HE cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play." Come, children, and take these front seats, while I tell you the story of the missionary chain. You... | |
 | Alexander Montgomerie - Scotland - 1887 - 504 pages
...fireside. See Sonnet xxvii. l. 14, and "The Flyting," l. 666. And cf. Sir Philip Sidney (1554l586) : " He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner." — ' The Defence of Poesy.' 125. Bvstour-baird=noisy rhymester? or ribald railer?... | |
 | Alexander Montgomerie - Scotland - 1887 - 504 pages
...fireside. See Sonnet xxvii. 1. 14, and "The Flyting," 1.666. And cf. Sir Philip Sidney (1554. 1586) : " He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney.corner." — 'The Defence of Poesy.' 125. Bvstour.baird=T\o\sy rhymester? or ribald railer?... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...Act i. Sc. 1. Poetry is the child of nature. 4218 Shirley : Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Preface. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. 4219 Sir Philip Sidney : The Defence of Poesy. The only fit speech for music — music,... | |
 | Alfred Sereno Hudson - Sudbury (Mass.) - 1889 - 768 pages
...Captain Hobbs and Chief Sackett. — Sketch of Capt. Josiah Brown. — List of Captain Brown's Troopers. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. HAVING considered the records of a short interval of peace in... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Great Britain - 1889 - 396 pages
...margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with...prepared for the well enchanting skill of music ; and forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 724 pages
...child of nature. 4218 Shirley : Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Preface. He coiueth unto yon witli a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. 4219 Sir Philip Sidney : The Defence of Poesy. The only fit speech for music — music,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1889 - 232 pages
...and loade the memorie with1 iO| doubtfulnesse : but hee commeth to you with words set2 in delightfull proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well enchanting skill of Musicke, and with a tale forsooth he commeth vnto you, with a tale, which holdeth children from play,... | |
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But he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting 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... 
