 | Henry Morley - 1892 - 452 Seiten
...load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportions, either accompanied with or prepared for the well-enchanting...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... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 288 Seiten
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...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... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 Seiten
...interpretations, and load the memory with doubtfulness, but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...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... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1893 - 538 Seiten
...interpretations, and lond the memory with doubtfulness, but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for,...tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale which holdelh children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner ; and, pretending no more, doth intend... | |
 | John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 Seiten
...interpretations and load the memory with doubtfulness ; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for...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... | |
 | Leo Salingar - 1974 - 372 Seiten
...between the appeal of mirth to Youth and Age, recalls Sidney's praise of the poet as story-teller - 'with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale...children from play, and old men from the chimney corner'; it could easily have furnished hints for Coleridge's remarkable chapter on the characteristics of Shakespeare's... | |
 | Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 Seiten
...accompanied with, or prepared for the well inchaunting skill of music; and with a tale forsooth he commeth unto you: with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner' (1595: Eiv). Berowne himself adapts the topic to characterize Boyet's charm with the ladies, attributing... | |
 | David R. Shore - 1985 - 200 Seiten
...Elizabethans, the stress is on the moral profit that justifies the poet's pleasure-giving activity: "with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale...the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue." 89 Cuddie, on the other hand, views poetry in relation to its audience solely as an instrument of delight:... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 Seiten
...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...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 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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But he cometh to you with words set in 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... 
