 | John Wood Warter - 1889 - 396 lehte
...proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the well enchanting skill of music ; and 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 weaning of the mind from wickedness to virtue, even as the... | |
 | Alfred Sereno Hudson - 1889 - 768 lehte
...Hobbs and Chief Sackett. — Sketch of Capt. Josiah Brown. — List of Captain Brown's Troopers. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. — SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. HAVING considered the records of a short interval of peace in... | |
 | David R. Shore - 1985 - 200 lehte
...is on the moral profit that justifies the poet's pleasure-giving activity: "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 the mind from wickedness to virtue." 89 Cuddie,... | |
 | Kent T. Van den Berg - 1985 - 204 lehte
...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... | |
 | James David Barber - 1988 - 542 lehte
...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 lehte
...on ARISTOCRACY; Agar on SNOBBERY; Burke, Chesterton on TRADITION Anecdotes With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth 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... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 lehte
...fiction, Sidney famously stresses the power of narrative over its hearers: 'with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth 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... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - 2003 - 288 lehte
...philosopher' ( 17) . The poet to Sidney is the monarch of all human sciences. 'With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth 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... | |
 | Dylan Thomas - 1992 - 332 lehte
...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 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 lehte
...English dramatist, poet. Miranda, lo Prospero, in The Tempest, act 1 , sc. 2. 9 With a tale, forsooth, he umour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. JANE AUSTEN (1775-181 7), English nov SIK I'HILIl' SIDNEY (1554-86), English poet, diplomat, soldier. Defence of Poesie (written 1579-80;... | |
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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 chimney... 
