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Records of Noble Lives - Page 34
by William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 349 pages
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The Works of the Honourable Sr. Philip Sidney, Kt. in Prose and Verse: I. A ...

Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...with a tale, forfootV;, C 3 he The Defenfe of Poefy. be cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner...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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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...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...take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste : which if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 970 pages
...holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner ; and pretending no more, doth in? tend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...take most wholesome things, by' hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste : which if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 528 pages
...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...•virtue ; even as the child is often brought to tak« most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste : which if one should...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 524 pages
...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...take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste : which if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner ; and pretending no more, doth in-> tend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste : which if one should begirt to tell them the nature of the aloes or...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...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-corner;*...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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Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 378 pages
...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-corner...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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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste : which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of the Aloes or...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...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-corner;*...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 tale,...
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