...child of nature. 4218 Shirley : Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Preface. He coiueth unto yon witli a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney-corner. 4219 Sir Philip Sidney : The Defence of Poesy. The only fit speech for music — music,...

...with, or prepared for, the wellenchanting skill of music ; and with a tale, forsooth, he 2s cometh unto you, with a tale 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...

...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...

...moral profit that justifies the poet's pleasure-giving activity: "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 intend the winning of the mind from wickedness to virtue." 89 Cuddie,...

...pleasure, entices the reader to enter the poet's realm of fantasy: "with a tale forsooth he commeth vnto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner." "Pretending no more" than a tale, the poet "doth intend the winning of the mind from wickednesse to...

...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 — that entices....

...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 indifferent by...

...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 wound beguiles...

...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 Abbey, one...

...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, of the individual...