 Bewray itself in my long-settled eyes, Whence those same fumes of melancholy rise, With idle pains, and missing aim, do guess. Some that know how my spring I did address, Deem that my Muse some fruit of knowledge plies ; Others, because the Prince my...  Life, Letters, and Writings - Page 73by Charles Lamb - 1882Full view - About this book
 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...did address, Deem that my Muse some fruit of knowledge plies; Others, because the prince my service tries, Think that I think state errors to redress....place, Holds my young brain captived in golden cage. Oh fools, or over-wise: alas, the race Of all my thoughts hath neither stop nor start But only Stella's... | |
 | Language and languages - 1928 - 536 pages
...did address, Deem that my Muse some fruit of knowledge plies Others, because thé Prince my service tries, Think, that I think state errors to redress...still climbing slippery place, Holds my young brain captiv'd in golden cage. O fools, or over-wise I alas, thé race Of ail my thoughts hath neither stop... | |
 | William Peacock - American poetry - 1928 - 476 pages
...still climing slipprie place, Holds my young braine captiu'd in golden cage. O fooles, or ouer-wise, alas the race Of all my thoughts hath neither stop nor start, But only Stellas eyes, and Stellas heart. (3) WITH how sad steps, 6 Moone, thou climb'st the skies, How silently,... | |
 | Philip Sidney - History - 1983 - 580 pages
...usually calm. Deem that my Muse some fruit of knowledge plies; Others, because the prince my service tries, Think that I think state errors to redress....ambition's rage, Scourge of itself, still climbing slipp'ry place, '(> Holds my young brain captiv'd in golden cage. O fools, or over- wise: alas, the... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - History - 1996 - 294 pages
...of it selfe, still climing slipprie place Holds my young braine captiv'd in golden cage. O fooles, or over-wise, alas the race Of all my thoughts hath...nor start But only Stella's eyes and Stella's heart. Obviously, Astrophil is not thinking about what a courtier engaged in state business ("the Prince my... | |
 | Philipp Wolf - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 364 pages
...dem lebendigsten („quiekest") aller Sinne. Fraunce gibt ein Beispiel aus Sidneys Sonetten: . . . alas the race Of all my thoughts hath neither stop nor Start, tieferen Sinn zu verweisen imstande ist. Inwieweit es dem Großteil der Produzenten/Rezipienten gleichwohl... | |
 | Philip Sidney - English poetry - 2002 - 182 pages
...did address, Deem that my Muse some fruit of knowledge plies: Others, because the prince my service tries, Think that I think state errors to redress....ambition's rage, Scourge of itself, still climbing slipp'ry place, Holds my young brain captiv'd in golden cage. O fools, or over-wise, alas the race... | |
 | Elliott M. Simon - Perfection - 2007 - 622 pages
...(AS 18: 3-4), when his "friendly foe, great expectation, wear a train of shame (AS 21: 8)," and when "harder judges judge ambition's rage, / scourge of...place, / holds my young brain captived in golden cage" (AS 23: 9-11). Whereas Sisyphus trespassed on divine mysteries, Sidney "trespassed" on Queen Elizabeth's... | |
 | Wendy Olmsted - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 313 pages
...Fraunce offers a passage from Sidney's Sonnets to show metaphor's power to represent inner experience: 'Alas the race /Of all my thoughts, hath neither stop, nor start, /But onely Stellaes eyes, and Stellaes hart' ('Sonnet 23,' p. 16).60 The imitatio of ceaselessly recurring... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 140 pages
...did address, Deem that my Muse some fruit of knowledge plies ; Others, because the Prince my service tries, Think, that I think state errors to redress...still climbing slippery place, Holds my young brain captiv'd in golden cage. O fools, or over-wise ! alas, the race Of all my thoughts hath neither stop... | |
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