...naturally exprefles it, is of force to hold children from play, and aid men from the chimney corner [s]. The poet, in the place before us, confiders it as...fpectator into all places, and makes him, occafionally, affume all perfons. The refemblance holds, alfo, in this, that its effects are inftantaneous and irrefiftible....

...And this is that sovereign quality in poetry, which, as an old writer of our own naturally expresses it, is of force to hold children from play, and old...chimney corner*. The poet, in the place before us, considers it as a kind of magic virtue, which transports the spectator into all places, and makes him,...

...And this is that sovereign quality in poetry, which, as an old writer of our own naturally expresses it, is of force to hold children, from play, and old...chimney corner*. The poet, in the place before us, considers it as a kind of magic virtue, which transports the spectator into all places, and makes him,...

...sovereign quality in poetry, which, as an old writer of our own naturally expresses it, is of farce to hold children from play, and old men from the chimney corner*. The poet, in the place before us, considers it as a kind of magic virtue, which transports the spectator into all places, and makes him,...

...And this is that sovereign quality in poetry, which, as an old writer of our own naturally expresses it, is of force to hold children from play, and old men from the chimney corner9. The poet, in the place before us, considers it as a kind of magic virtue, which transports...

...And this is that sovereign quality in poetry, which, as an old writer of our own naturally expresses it, is of force to hold children from play, and old men from tlie chimney corner 3 . The poet, in the place before us, considers it as a kind of magic virtue, which...

...story of the sublime old tar can ever be told in a manner more thoroughly delightful. It is a " tale to hold children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." Yon move upon enchanted ground, and every sight and every sound is framed for charming. But this praise...

...done so with one, which has an interest like that which i-ir I'hilip Sidney ascribes to the poet — " to hold children from play, and old men from the chimney corner." It is translated from the French, and published by Derby & Jackson, wilh the title of •• Jules...

...would make ! Let Charles Reade or Victor Hugo take James White for a hero, and give us a new novel to hold children from play and old men from the chimney corner. But let the novelist for once pity and spare us, and not transform poor White into a walking cyclopedia...

...lacking in available material of this kind. Many are the historical tales which indeed have the power to "hold children from play and old men from the chimney corner." Can we not bear this in mind as we suggest summer reading to our pupils ? If the particular class you...