 ... 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...  The Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Pagina 74door Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 785 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1879 - 528 pagina’s
...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...the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue. In fine, we think that all the popular objections against poetry may be not only satisfactorily but... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1879 - 506 pagina’s
...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...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-comer ; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue.... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 pagina’s
...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...of the mind from wickedness to virtue. Sir Philip Sidney, Apology for Poetry, POET. T1s he who gives my breast a thousand pains, Can make me feel each... | |
 | James David Barber - 1988 - 542 pagina’s
...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 —... | |
 | Jocelyn Harris - 2003 - 288 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Dylan Thomas - 1992 - 332 pagina’s
...delightful proportion, 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,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 pagina’s
...SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), English dramatist, poet. Miranda, lo Prospero, in The Tempest, act 1 , sc. 2. 9 With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a...which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. SIK I'HILIl' SIDNEY (1554-86), English poet, diplomat, soldier. Defence of Poesie (written... | |
 | Bernice E. Gallagher - 1994 - 232 pagina’s
...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 the book is imprinted... | |
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