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" And others' feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, "Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write. "
The English Novel: Being a Short Sketch of Its History from the Earliest ... - Page 55
by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1894 - 298 pages
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

1824 - 378 pages
...feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, yet helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, —...said my muse to me — ' look in thy heart, and write ! ' " The following are examples of the manner in which he occasionally obeys the dictate of his muse....
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 10

1824 - 378 pages
...with child to speak, yet helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, — 4 Fool ! ' said my muse to me — ' look in thy heart, and write ! ' " The following are examples of the manner in which he occasionally obeys the dictate of his muse....
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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies..

1845 - 762 pages
...feet still seem'd but strangers in my way. Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes. Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite ; —...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...
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The Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies...

1845 - 384 pages
...feet still seem'd but strangers in my way. Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite;—...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...
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Cabinet Portrait Gallery of British Worthies, Volumes 4-6

1845 - 410 pages
...feet still seem'd but strangers in my way. Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite ; —...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...
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Views and Reviews in American Literature: History and Fiction

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...
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Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the ...

Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...feet still seem'd but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool...! 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...
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Cambridge Essays, Volume 4

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...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Sir Philip Sidney, Knt: With a Life of the Author ...

Philip Sidney - 1860 - 412 pages
...feet still seem'd but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool...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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A Memoir of Sir Philip Sidney

Henry Richard Fox Bourne - 1862 - 588 pages
...feet still seemed but strangers in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, '...said my Muse to me, ' look in thy heart and write !'" * It is clear that Sidney did not always look simply into his heart before -writing. In his Astrophel...
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