 | S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 490 pages
...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...hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste." " By these examples and reasons, I think it may be manifest, that the Poet, with that same hand of... | |
 | S. M. Henry Davis - 1859 - 326 pages
...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...is often brought to take most wholesome things by biding them in such other as have a pleasant taste." " By these examples and reasons, I think it may... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 404 pages
...conceived to have suggested Shakespeare's exquisite description, — and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue...would sooner take their physic at their ears than at their mouth ; so it is in . men ; (most of whom are childish in the best things, till they be cradled... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 pages
...and old men from the chimneycorner ;1 and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the rnind from wickedness to virtue, even as the child is often...hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste. For even those hard-hearted evil men, who think virtue a school name, and know no other good but indulgere... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1860 - 530 pages
...Talboys. wholefome things, by hiding them in fuch other as have a pleafant tafte: which, if one fhould begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarbarum they mould receive, would fooner take their phyfic at their ears than at their mouth." The firft ftory marked... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1860 - 526 pages
...Talboys. wholefome things, by hiding them in fuch other as have a pleafant tafte : which, if one mould begin to tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarbarum they mould receive, would fooner take their phyfic at their ears than at their mouth." The firft ftory marked... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...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...rhubarbarum they should receive, would sooner take thfiir physic at their ears than at their mouth : so is it in men ; (most of whom are childish in the... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1862 - 588 pages
...holdeth children from play and old men from the chimneycorner, and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue....other as have a pleasant taste, which, if one should tell them the nature of the aloes or rhubarb they should receive, would sooner take their physic at... | |
 | 1862 - 538 pages
...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...take most wholesome things, by hiding them in such others as have a pleasant taste.' In 1581 Sir Philip shone 'a bright particular star ' in the tourneys... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimneycorner ; * and pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue,...hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste. For even those hard-hearted evil men, who think virtue a school name, and know no other good but indulgere... | |
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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... 
