 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
 | John Addington Symonds - Great Britain - 1887 - 212 pages
...Invention, nature's child, fled step-dame study's blows; Another's feet still seemed but stranger's in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless...said my Muse to me,' look in thy heart and write!' " This means that Sidney's love was sincere; but that he first sought expression for it in phrases... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Great Britain - 1887 - 214 pages
...Invention, nature's child, fled step-dame study's blows; Another's feet still seemed but stranger's in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless...said my Muse to me,' look in thy heart and write!'" This means that Sidney's love was sincere; but that be first sought expression for it in phrases studied... | |
 | 1888 - 614 pages
...Taking the poets first, they may without exception be classed as Chaucer's followers and imitators. ' Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write,' thus Sidney in a later age; but 'look at Chaucer and write,' was the command of the Muse who inspired... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1888 - 512 pages
...Loee's Ln*,our'n Lost is alive with Sidney. Sidney's fit-it Sonnet, with its forcible last line— " Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write," was liko a trumpet call to Shakspeare in 1591. The impression that line stamped in him comes out immediately... | |
 | American fiction - 1897 - 552 pages
...flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain. But words came halting forth . . . — Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. One of Sidney's intimate friends, Edward Dyer, is known to fame only for that friendship and for one... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 288 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. Johnson's account of the sublime (note the adjective for his second effect), and the methods of attaining... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 284 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. Johnson's account of the sublime (note the adjective for his second effect), and the methods of attaining... | |
 | John Morley - Authors, English - 1894 - 630 pages
...Invention, nature's child, fled step-dame study's blows ; Another's feet still seemed but stranger's in my way. Thus, great with child to speak, and helpless...said my Muse to me, ' look in thy heart and write !' " This means that Sidney's love was sincere ; but that he first sought expression for it in phrases... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - English fiction - 1894 - 322 pages
...other's leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburn'cl brain. " Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, '...said my Muse to me, ' look in thy heart and write ! ' " And before many sonnets have followed, the reader feels the truth of the poet's further declaration... | |
 | Alexander Whyte - 1894 - 324 pages
...this temptation comes it takes away my girdle from me, and removeth the foundation from under me.' ' Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write.' And John Bunyan looked into his own deep and holy heart, and out of it he composed this incident of... | |
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