 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 σελίδες
...historians 'laden with old mouse-eaten records' (p. 83) sees poetry as that which by its very nature 'cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner' (p. 92). Poetry is inseparable from delight. Puttenham, too, allows poetry 'being used for recreation... | |
 | Barbara Korte, Ralf Schneider, Stefanie Lethbridge - 2000 - 360 σελίδες
...the period that narratives or stories are immediately appealing", and drawing attention to Sidney's "tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney comer" (89). Thomas Lever: "A Preface shewing the true understanding of God's word." In: John Bradford:... | |
 | Benjamin Woolley - 2002 - 380 σελίδες
...Books Edition 2002 DESIGNED BY FRITZ METSCH Printed in the United States of America 3 5 7 9 io 8 6 4 2 He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, '•Defence ofToesy Dee's journey across Europe \ Niepotomice AUTHOR'S... | |
 | Claire McEachern - 2002 - 310 σελίδες
...(1.3.170). Indeed, Othello's gift as a raconteur is akin to that of the poet who, in Sidney's phrase, 'cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner'.13 When seen as the understandable response to such a tale, Desdemona's choice is accepted... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 2002 - 286 σελίδες
...pupil, the childishly old as well as the child. 'With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you,' we learn, 'with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner' (95/17-19). Sidney's text is the very opposite of a schoolbook, and as such sets itself up in friendly... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 282 σελίδες
...demonstrating that the implications of Sidney's famous formula, 'words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchanting skill of music' are not as straightforward as is usually assumed; he shows how 'the courtly poet, exercised as Sidney... | |
 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - 1981 - 284 σελίδες
...extraordinary demands of virtue or intellect: [The poet] cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. (92. 7-11) Sidney bases himself on the Horatian formula that poetry must teach and delight. Man's teachability... | |
 | Stephen Blake Mettee - 2007 - 444 σελίδες
...teaches novel writing at private workshops. Telling Tales A short story workshop A By Shelly Lowenkopf With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. —Sir Philip Sidney 'SHORT STORY IS LIKE A GENIE IN A BOTTLE. Once the cork is pulled, out gushes... | |
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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... 
