 I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe; Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain.  The Retrospective Review - Page 541824Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...she, might take some pleasure of my pain,— • Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, , Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace...would flow — Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burn'd brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Thus, great with child to... | |
 | William Thomas Young - English poetry - 1923 - 328 pages
...she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace...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,... | |
 | John Buchan - English literature - 1923 - 746 pages
...corda, Since Nature's works be good, and death doth serve As Nature's work, why should we fear to die ? Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burned brain, or makes mock later of those who sing over again " poor Petrarch's long-deceased... | |
 | Egerton Smith - English language - 1923 - 352 pages
...sought fit wordes to paint the blackest face of woe; Studying inventions fine her wit to entertaine, Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitfull shower upon my sun-burn'd brain. But words came halting out, wanting Invention's stay; Invention,... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1903 - 628 pages
...take some pleasure of my pain, — '" Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know,-V Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain,—...sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe ; (-xStudying inventions fine, her wits to entertain, -"VOft turning others' leaves, to see if thence... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain, — 1 proof 2 desirous sunburn'd brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay ; Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1926 - 580 pages
...and faine in verse my love to show, That she, deare She, might take some pleasure of my paine . . . I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe ; Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertaine, Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitfull showers... | |
 | Robert Lynd - Sonnets, English - 1927 - 80 pages
...dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, • Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace...would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburn'd brain. But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay; Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - History - 1983 - 580 pages
...she, dear she, might take some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace...paint the blackest face of woe: Studying inventions fine,1 her wits to entertain, Oft turning others' leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, Nancy Vickers, Catherine R. Stimpson - History - 1986 - 464 pages
...cause her reade, reading might make her know, Knowledge might pitie winne, and pitie grace obtaine, I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertaine. Sidney assumes that the woman whom he addresses is highly skilled in a rhetorical process... | |
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