 | Bernice E. Gallagher - 1994 - Počet stránok 232
...1871), 283 pp. Inscribed on the title page of this novel is a quote attributed to Sir Philip Sidney: "He cometh unto you with a Tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner." Sidney's words evidently proved true for The Trapper's Niece because the spine of... | |
 | David Daniell - 2001 - Počet stránok 462
...Scottish ballad tradition is well-documented, of course, and even Sidney recognised the force in poetry of a tale, 'which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner';34 but we have only what has survived, in manuscript or print, and there is no catalogue of... | |
 | David Simpson - 1995 - Počet stránok 224
...teaching," and "with the end of well-doing and not of well-knowing only" (112, 1 04) He is a storyteller and "cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner" (113) Above all, like a god or a magician — though ideally not like the "conjurer" Louis Bonaparte... | |
 | John Myers Myers - 1995 - Počet stránok 484
...has been written in the hope that readers will find it— to use Sir Philip Sidney's mellow phrase— "a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner." That being so, it did not seem fitting to freight the work with the scholarly lading of notes and an... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - Počet stránok 666
...from the world. BENJAMIN DISRAELI, (1804-1881) British statesman, author. Lothair, ch. 28 (1870). 2 With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, (1554-1586) British poet, diplomat, soldier. "An Apology for Poetry" (written 1579-1580,... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1997 - Počet stránok 350
...verse forms are allied to the cosmos, as music is, by proportion. The poet, Sidney says in his Apology, "cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion,...prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music."' Many of Donne's conceits are cosmological, especially in poems of mutual love, displaying the musica... | |
 | Daniel . . . [et al. Aranda Juárez - 2009 - Počet stránok 263
...Rhetorics of Self 173 1 1 Rhetorics of Frivolity 201 12 Conclusion 214 Bibliography 233 Index 272 PREFACE He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. Sir Philip Sidney In forty years of pursuing the meaning of play, it has become apparent to me that... | |
 | Paul Salzman - 1998 - Počet stránok 468
...Sidney, whose definition of poetry includes prose fiction, focuses on this aspect of the poet's power: 'with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner'. 12 It is not just the story that's the thing, it is also the method of telling it. That is perhaps... | |
 | Roger Kuin - 1998 - Počet stránok 316
...blind Archer, that he had won a historic victory. 'With a tale,' he wrote of the poet, 'with a tale he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner.' Structures, he delicately hinted, are hard and boring. In History (the other histoire) the villains... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - 1998 - Počet stránok 364
...the way, äs will entice any man to enter into it. ... He beginneth not with obscure definitions ... but he 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... | |
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But he 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... 
