 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
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 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,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 630 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...throes, Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite ; tool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write. It is most true that eyes are form'd to serve... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - 1901 - 862 pages
...child to speak, and helpless in his throes,' Sidney was biting his pen and beating his bosom, when ' " y A Accordingly, look in his heart he did ; but to eyes unaccustomed to the blaze of nature the white light... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 868 pages
...child to speak, and helpless in his throes,' Sidney was biting his pen and beating his bosom, when ' " ven ! I '11 travel sure, and live with none but kings. . . . Accordingly, look in his heart he did ; but to eyes unaccustomed to the blaze of nature the white light... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1902 - 280 pages
...to us, justify this criticism. Dante alone had learned the lesson which the Muse taught Sidney, " ' Fool,' said my Muse to me, 'look in thy heart and write.' " will, turning away their faces, quickened again their pace. And as the man who is weary of running... | |
 | Bowyer Nichols - 1903 - 300 pages
...sunbnrn'd 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...Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart, and write ! PHILIP SIDNEY VIRTUE, alas, now let me take some rest ; Thou set'st a bate l between my will and... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1903 - 488 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.' (Sm PHILIP SIDNEV: Astrophel and Stella, i. ab. 1580.) What, may it be that e'en in heavenly place... | |
 | John Erskine - 1903 - 854 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...child to speak, and helpless in my throes; Biting ray trewand pen, beating myself for spite ; ' Fool!' said my Muse to me,' look in thy heart and write... | |
 | John Erskine - 1903 - 374 pages
...strangers in my way, Thus great with child to speak, and helpless in my throes ; Biting my trewand pen, beating myself for spite ; ' Fool ! ' said my Muse to me, ' look in thy heart and write ! "* 1 Barnes uses a sonnet of fifteen lines. The octave is regular, but instead of a sextet he substitutes... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1902 - 282 pages
...to us, justify this criticism. Dante alone had learned the lesson which the Muse taught Sidney, " ' Fool,' said my Muse to me, ' look in thy heart and write.' " will, turning away their faces, quickened again their pace. And as the man who is weary of running... | |
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