...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...describing note to know a poet by'. The poet: cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion . . . and with a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with...from play, and old men from the chimney corner. And, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue — even as the child...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...