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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... "
Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ... - Page 156
by George Burnett - 1807
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The Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1897 - 450 pages
...intend tte 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...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth ; so it is in men (most of them are childish till they be cradled in their graves),...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 21

John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 620 pages
...pleasant taste ; which, if any one should begin to tell them of the nature of the aloes or rhubarbum they should receive, would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth. So is it in men — most of whom are childish in their best things till they be cradled...
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Universal Classics Library, Volume 8

Literature - 1901 - 440 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...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth ; so it is in men (most of them are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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English Belles-lettres from A.D. 907 to 1834 ...

English literature - 1901 - 436 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...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth ; so it is in men (most of them are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834

Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - English literature - 1901 - 432 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...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth; so it is in men (most of them are childish in the best things, till they be cradled...
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...winning of the mind from wickednesse to vertue ; even as the childe is often brought to take most wholsom austus : Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burned the topless lo beginne to tell them the nature of the Aloes or Kubarb they shoulde receive, would sooner take their...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 18

Literature - 1901 - 686 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 ; which, if any one should begin to tell them of the nature of the aloes or rhubarbum they should receive, would...
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Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...winning of the mind from wickednesse to vertue ; even as the childe is often brought to take most wholsom e, and my mynd, Was changit clene ryght in an-othir kynd. Off hir array the form gi beginne to tell them the nature of the Aloes or Rubarb they shoulde receive, would sooner take their...
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English & American Literature, Studies in Literary Criticism ..., Volume 8

Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1903 - 358 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." The following sonnet is one of his best : "With how sad steps, O Moon! thou climb'st the skies, How...
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Baconiana

1903 - 306 pages
...winning of the mind from wickednesse to vertue ; even as the childe is often brought to take most wholsom things, by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste." The instruments upon which the three figures in our speaking picture are playing, are, I think, intended...
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