 | Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...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...fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burnt brain; But words came halting forth, wanting invention's stay, Invention, nature's child, fled step-dame study's... | |
 | Fashion - 462 pages
...paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain — Oft turning other's leaves to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburned braiii. But words came haltiug forth, wanting iutenfah stay — Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | Authors - 1845 - 432 pages
...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-burn'd brain : But words came halting forth, wanting invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | 1845 - 384 pages
...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-bura'd brain: But words came halting forth, wanting invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | 1845 - 410 pages
...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-burn'd brain : But words came halting forth, wanting invention's stay, Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain : Oft turning over leaves, to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burnt brain. But words came halting forth, wanting invention's stay: Invention, natures child, fled step-dame Study's... | |
 | Fashion - 1851 - 318 pages
...paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain — Oft turning other's leaves to see if thence would flow Some fresh and fruitful showers upon my sunburned brain. But words camo halting forth, wanting invention's stay — Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1860 - 412 pages
...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-burn'd brain. But words came halting forth, wanting invention's stay ; Invention, Nature's child,... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1862 - 588 pages
...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...fresh and fruitful showers upon my sun-burnt brain. Astropkel, lines 13 — 64. STELLA'S QUEENSHIP. 315 But words came halting forth, wanting invention's... | |
 | William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 506 pages
...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 sunburned brain." But Invention, the child of Nature, fled from the blows of Study. He sat biting his... | |
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I sought fit words to paint the blackest face of woe, Studying inventions fine, her wits to entertain; Oft turning others... 
