 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 impair'd. He that has light within...  Certificate Examination - Page 54by Great Britain. Scottish Education Dept - 1898Full view - About this book
 | John Jebb - Bible - 1820 - 502 pages
...profane, does not afford a better illustration of this passage, than the strains of our great poet : Virtue could see to do what virtue would, By her own...light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat sea sunk. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day : But he... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 472 pages
...quarto has been followed. Malone. Milton, in his Camus, might here have been indebted to Shakspeare : " Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her...though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." Steeven's. s Come, civil night,] Civil is grave, decently solemn, Johnson, See As you Like it. Vol.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, Hie ise as Nature, and as fix'd as Fate. iinpair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...is not,) Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts. And put them into mis-becoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own...her wings. That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 538 pages
...has been followed. MALONE. Milton, in his Comus, might here have been indebted to Shakspeare : , " Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her...though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." STEEVENS. 9Come, CIVIL night,] Ci vil is grave, decently solemn. JOHNSON. So, in our poet's Lover's... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...she is not) Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit in... | |
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...she is not) Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude : y Milton's ' Comus' was originally set by Henry Lawes, and first published by him in 1637, with a... | |
 | 1822 - 356 pages
...for the ease and indolent enjoyments connected with rural retirement. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks the sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse...her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the bustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes iropair'd. As these dispositions and... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...she is not), Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own...bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i'the centre, and enjoy bright day... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 340 pages
...for the ease and indolent enjoyments connected with rural retirement. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks the sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse...her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the bustling hurry of resort. Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 'In a poem expressive of tender... | |
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