 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
 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 404 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 speak, and helpless in my throes, IL Not at first sight, nor with a_drjbbed_shot , Love gave the wound, which, while I breathe, will... | |
 | 1874 - 780 pages
...much as we might expect from that chivalrous young soldier who perished so gallantly at Zutphen. " ' Fool,' said my Muse to me, ' look in thy heart and write.' " So Sidney wrote, in a moment of divine dissatisfaction, but he did not, or could not, obey the Muse.... | |
 | William Minto - 1874 - 506 pages
...fled from the blows of Study. He sat biting his pen, and beating himself for spite, till at last— " Fool! said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write." His success was such that he could not refrain from boastful tirades against the old imitators— "... | |
 | William Minto - 1874 - 520 pages
...fled from the blows of Study. He sat biting his pen, and beating himself for spite, till at last — " Fool ! said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write." His success was such that he could not refrain from boastful tirades against the old imitators —... | |
 | Mandell Creighton - 1876 - 308 pages
...halting forth, wanting invention's stay. At last the happy revelation came to the labouring student, — Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, '...said my Muse to me, ' look in thy heart and write.' His sonnets and his songs are full of delicate fancies, and express in new and varied imagery the changing... | |
 | Mandell Creighton (bp. of London.) - 1876 - 268 pages
...happy revelation came to the labouring student,— Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, 1 Fool,' said my Muse to me, ' look in thy heart and write.' His sonnets and his songs are full of delicate fancies, and express in new and varied imagery, the... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1877 - 670 pages
...But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay. Invention Nature's child, fled step-dame's Study's blows ; And others' feet still seemed but...child to speak, and helpless in my throes; Biting my trewand pen, beating myself for spite : " Fool ! " said my Muse, "look in thy heart, and write ! "... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1877 - 668 pages
...But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay. £ Invention Nature's child, fled step-dame's Study's blows; -/• And others' feet still seemed but strangers' in my way. -t. Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes ;L Biting my trewand pen, beating myself... | |
 | Charles Dunham Deshler - 1879 - 334 pages
...still seem'd but strangers in my way. Thus, great with childe to speak, and helpless in my throws, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, Fool ! said my Muse to mee, look in thy heart, and write.' " ( Stella ! think not that I by vers seek fame, Who seek, who... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 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...my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write. It is most true that eyes are form'd to serve The inward light, and that the heavenly part Ought to be King,... | |
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