 | British poets - 1824 - 676 páginas
...thoughts To form unreal wants. Ibid. RETIREMENT. Wisdom's self Oft seeks so sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Milton's Comus, Dear solitary groves, where peace does dwell ! Sweet harbours of pure love... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse contemplation She plumes...That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruflled, and sometimes impair^. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th1 centre,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 páginas
...smeel retired solitude,] At first he had written the verse thus, Oft seeks to solitary sweet retire. Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. sso Examynacyon of A. Askew, p. 24. " Hath not he moche nede of... | |
 | 1825 - 628 páginas
...retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Helyot) HUt. des Ordres Monastiques, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings,...resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. But this kind of seclusion is not to be found in a monastery, though worm and youthful fancies might... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 páginas
...seeks to solitary sweet retire. 3/6. For the same uncommon use of seek, Mr. Bowle cites Bale's VWhere with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers,...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. sso Examynacyon of A. Askew, p. 24. " Hath not he moche nede of... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 páginas
...though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 páginas
...breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters, where Contemplation " May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd/' that I absent myself from the town for awhile, without feeling at a loss the moment I am... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 páginas
...prepare himself for still further exertions, when his mind was enabled " To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings. That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled and sometimes impair'd." This short but tranquil portion of his life he * Vide vol. iii. p. 321. has himself feelingly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 páginas
...breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters, where Contemplation " May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd/' that I absent myself from the town for awhile, without feeling at a loss the moment I am... | |
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And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within... 
