Oft turning others' leaves to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain, but words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows, And others' feet still seemed... A Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney - Page 315by Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1862 - 557 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1824 - 378 pages
...sun-burnt brain; But words came halting forth, wanting invention's stay, Invention, nature's child, fled step-dame study's blows; And others' feet still seemed...strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, yet helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, — ' Fool ! ' said my muse... | |
| 1824 - 378 pages
...sun-burnt brain ; But words came halting forth, wanting invention's stay, Invention, nature's child, fled step-dame study's blows; And others' feet still seemed...strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, yet helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, — 4 Fool ! ' said my muse... | |
| 1845 - 410 pages
...invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows And others' feet still seem'd but strangers in my way. Thus great with child to...said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write." He did so ; and England in consequence received a precious storehouse of the most exquisite thoughts... | |
| 1845 - 384 pages
...invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows ' And others' feet still seem'd but strangers in my way. Thus great with child to...said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write." He did so ; and England in consequence received a precious storehouse of the most exquisite thoughts... | |
| 1845 - 762 pages
...invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows ' And others' feet still seem'd but strangers in my way. Thus great with child to...said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write." He did so ; and England in consequence received a precious storehouse of the most exquisite thoughts... | |
| William Gilmore Simms - 1845 - 448 pages
...Milton, Shakspeare, Byron, Burns and Scott, and, indeed, of almost every writer who has possessed " Fool ! ' said my Muse to me,' look in thy heart and write." — Sir Philif Sidney — Aitrophel and Stella. any marked individuality of character. We state this... | |
| Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...invention's stay: Invention, natures child, fled step-dame Study's blows, And others' feet still seem'd but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to...! said my muse to me, look in thy heart and write. SONNET. Because I oft, in dark abstracted guise Seem most alone in greatest company; With dearth of... | |
| 1851 - 318 pages
...Invention, Nature's child, fled etep-Uamw Slu'-ly's blows, And other's feet still soem'd but strangers iu my way. Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Kiting my truant pen, beating myself for spite — Fool ! said my Muso, look in thy heart aud write!"... | |
| 1858 - 372 pages
...shower upon my sun-burnt braine. But that he in vain attempted to follow in the track of others : — Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. In another place he says : — And Love doth hold my hand and make me write. Nevertheless, there are... | |
| Philip Sidney - 1860 - 412 pages
...invention's stay ; Invention, Nature's child, fled step-dame Study's blows, And others' feet still seem'd but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to...said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write. II. Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot, Love gave the wound, which, while I breathe, will... | |
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