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" ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the 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... "
The Nineteenth Century - Page 532
1878
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Literary Criticism for Students

Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 pages
...the very first give you a cluster of grapes, that full of that taste yoj may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must...proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth...
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Outlines of English Literature

William Renton - 1893 - 268 pages
...very first, give you a cluster of grapes ; that, full of that taste, you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions; which must...with doubtfulness; but he cometh to you with words sef in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,. the well- enchanting skill...
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 10

Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin - 1893 - 534 pages
...would swear they be brought to school again." And when the study of a play of Shakespeare's begins with " obscure definitions, which must blur the margin...interpretations and load the memory with doubtfulness," its victim may swear safely not only that he is put to school again, but that he is put to a bad school....
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English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature, Volume 10

Henry Morley - 1893 - 538 pages
...purpose of the poet is to delight and teach, but so to delight that he shall not seem to be teaching. " He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and lond the memory with doubtfulness, but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either...
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Words and Days: A Table-book of Prose and Verse

1895 - 416 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness...proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well-enchanting skill of music, and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth...
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Adventures in Criticism

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1896 - 448 pages
...definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulnesse : but he cometh to you with words set in delightful...proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the well inchanting skill of Musicke : and with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you : with a tale which holdeth...
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Adventures in Criticism

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1896 - 438 pages
...definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulnesse : but he cometh to you with words set in delightful...proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the well inchanting skill of Musicke : and with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you : with a tale which holdeth...
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A School History of English Literature, Volume 1

Elizabeth Lee - 1896 - 232 pages
...else, with that delightful teaching which must be the right describing note to know a poet by ... who 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...
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English Literary Criticism

Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 pages
...you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness: but he cometh to you with words sent in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for the well enchanting skill of...
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The Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 6

William Shakespeare - 1897 - 450 pages
...purpose of the poet is to delight and teach. but so to delight that he shall not seem to mean teaching. " He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpracations, and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he cometh to you with words set in delightful...
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