 | Alexander Montgomerie - 1887 - 504 oldal
...fireside. See Sonnet xxvii. l. 14, and "The Flyting," l. 666. And cf. Sir Philip Sidney (1554l586) : " He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner." — ' The Defence of Poesy.' 125. Bvstour-baird=noisy rhymester? or ribald railer?... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 oldal
...Act i. Sc. 1. Poetry is the child of nature. 4218 Shirley : Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Preface. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. 4219 Sir Philip Sidney : The Defence of Poesy. The only fit speech for music — music,... | |
 | Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 oldal
...accompanied with, or prepared for the well inchaunting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he commeth unto you: with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner' (1595: Eiv). Berowne himself adapts the topic to characterize Boyet's charm with the ladies, attributing... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 oldal
...pleasure, entices the reader to enter the poet's realm of fantasy: "with a tale forsooth he commeth vnto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner." "Pretending no more" than a tale, the poet "doth intend the winning of the mind from wickednesse to... | |
 | David Lindley - 1986 - 264 oldal
...writers, musicians and critics that if the poet 'cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music'," then he will offer a particular kind of poem. Bruce Pattison Expresses this standard view: Sixteenth-century... | |
 | James David Barber - 1988 - 542 oldal
...theater. This appeal is mysterious, but an obvious part of the lure of, in Sir Philip Sidney's words, "a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner" is the promise of action. But it is action of a special kind — interior action — that entices.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 oldal
...Anglo-Irish satirist See Burton on ARISTOCRACY; Agar on SNOBBERY; Burke, Chesterton on TRADITION Anecdotes With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) English poet, critic, soldier The history of a soldier's wound beguiles... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - 2003 - 288 oldal
...poet, 'a right popular philosopher' ( 17) . The poet to Sidney is the monarch of all human sciences. 'With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner' (21-2). By poetry men learn philosophy the sweetest and homeliest way, as in Northanger Abbey, one... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 oldal
...points to the power of prose fiction, Sidney famously stresses the power of narrative over its hearers: 'with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner' (p. 92). Prose fiction's vivid narratives will move those to virtue who would be left indifferent by... | |
 | Dylan Thomas - 1992 - 332 oldal
...with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he cometh...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. The Defence of Poesie is a defence of the imaginative life, of the duty, and the delight, of the individual... | |
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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... 
