...accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting sktll of musie; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children...chimney-corner; and pretending no more, doth intend the winuing of the mind from wickeduess to virtue; even as the child is often broaght to take most wholesome...

...accompanied with, or prepared for, the well enchaunting skill of Musicke ; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you — with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. And, pretending no more, doth intende the winning of the mind from wickednesse to vertue;...

...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 —...

...on ARISTOCRACY; Agar on SNOBBERY; Burke, Chesterton on TRADITION Anecdotes With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale 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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...English dramatist, poet. Miranda, lo Prospero, in The Tempest, act 1 , sc. 2. 9 With a tale, forsooth, he umour, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language. JANE AUSTEN (1775-181 chimney corner. SIK I'HILIl' SIDNEY (1554-86), English poet, diplomat, soldier. Defence of Poesie (written...

...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...

...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...