...music: Hee [the poet] beginneth not with obscure definitions ... but hee commeth to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with or prepared for the well enchanting skills of Musicke.5 And Thomas Ravenscroft points out that certain rhythmic patterns in music had been...

...SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), English dramatist, poet. Miranda, lo Prospero, in The Tempest, act 1 , sc. 2. 9 est effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the...chosen language. JANE AUSTEN (1775-181 7), English nov SIK I'HILIl' SIDNEY (1554-86), English poet, diplomat, soldier. Defence of Poesie (written 1579-80;...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...enter into it. ... He beginneth not with obscure definitions ... but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with,...holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney comer (ebd. 113). Vierhundert Jahre später muß Theodor W. Adorno keine Rücksicht mehr auf den nun...

...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...