 | Orton Lowe - Children - 1914 - 374 pages
...of the Robin Hood tales he gives this happy admonition in the introduction: "You who so plod among serious things that you feel it a shame to give yourself...in the land of Fancy ; you who think that life hath naught to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one; these pages are not for you. Clap the leaves... | |
 | Howard Pyle - Juvenile Fiction - 1968 - 322 pages
...Number: 68-55820 From the Author to the Reader. rOU who so plod amid serious things that you fedit shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments...mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy ; you who thinh that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one ; these pages are not... | |
 | Stephen Knight - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 280 pages
...century. Pyle's tone is both quasi-medieval and fanciful. His preface invites his readers and viewers to "give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy." He offers "innocent laughter" and the chance to see "good, sober folks of real history so frisk and... | |
| |
You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it a shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can harm no one ; these pages... 