...simplicity. The poet " commeth to you," he says, "with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner ; and, pretending no more,...the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue." And of the historian he speaks as one who is " better acquainted with a thousand years ago, than with...

...unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner, and, by pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue. The exact date of Sidney's tractate is uncertain, but from the mention of Spenser's first poetical...

...unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner, and, by pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue. The exact date of Sidney's tractate is uncertain, but from the mention of Spenser's first poetical...

...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...

...of music ; and 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 others as have a pleasant taste." Reviewing first the influence in his prose, in the Hermit's Speech,...

...unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner, and by pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue." This work written probably in his twenty 'Sixth year makes the reader realize how great was the loss...

...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 66 the mind from wickedness to virtue; even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things,...

...reads ac veluti . . . aspirant mellis. Cf. Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poetry, ed. Cook, p. 23, ' Even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such others as have a pleasant taste, — which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes...

...veluti , . . aspirant mellis. Cf. Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poetry, ed. Cook, p. 23, ' Even as Ihe child is often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such others as have a pleasant taste, — which, if one should begin to tell them the nature of the aloes...

...ids ас veluti . . . aspirant mellis. Cf. Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poetry, ed. K>k, p. 23, ' Even as the child is often brought to take most wholesome things by ling them in such others as have a pleasant taste, — which, if one should begin tell them the nature...