 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 страници
...comet h to you with words set with delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, ihc well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto yon, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner; and pretending... | |
 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 страници
...lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. ¡. SCOTT — Lay of ike Last Minstrel. Canto II. St 1. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, und old men from the chimney corner. «L Sir PHILIP SIDNEY— The Defense ol Poesy. KOYAbTY. Many a... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 558 страници
...He beginneth not with obscure definitions; which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness; but he cometh to you with words set with delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well -enchanting skill of... | |
 | 1883 - 998 страници
...the true poet must ever come) " with words set in delightful proportion, prepared for the enchanting skill of music, and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh...children from play and old men from the chimney-corner." At frequent intervals during the past two years our readers have been introduced iu these pages to... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 488 страници
...Ни beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margin with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he cometh to you...delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepare! for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with... | |
 | James David Barber - 1988 - 542 страници
...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 —... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - 2003 - 288 страници
...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...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... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Dylan Thomas - 1992 - 332 страници
...beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he cometh to you...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,... | |
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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... 
