 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...  The English Journal of Education - Page 1491852Full view - About this book
 | John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...in the darkest corner of the earth, and enjoy the clear and calm sunshine of conscious integrity. " Virtue could see to do what virtue would " By her...though sun and moon « Were in the flat sea sunk."— MILTON. Virtue, by which I mean that habit of active goodness which flows from the pure principle of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 260 pages
...and character of those verses which are employed in describing it ? And Wisdom's self Oft seeks the sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse...plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in the bustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. As these dispositions and... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 244 pages
...the ease and indolent enjoy menis connected with rural retirement. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks the sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse...plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in tlie bustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. As these dispositions... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 572 pages
...becomirg plight. Vir:ue cou'd se to *!o what vir:ue would By her own radiant light, though sun and rroon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks...nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and l-ts jjrow her wings, That in 'he various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 354 pages
...for the ease and indolent enjoyments connected with rural retirement. And Wisdom's gelf Oft seeks the sweet retired solitude. Where, with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her featherg, and lets grow her wings. That. in the bustling hurry of resort. Were all too ruffled, and... | |
 | 1803 - 200 pages
...fecrecy of defert Cell, And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bultle of Refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. The front of the Grotto... | |
 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1805 - 432 pages
...dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest." Milton thus personifies Wisdorn, " Wisdom's self Oft seels to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse...plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired," Par. Lost. And Warton... | |
 | Henry Kett - Literature - 1805 - 422 pages
...oft suspend the dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest." Milton thus personifies AVisdom, — " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...nurse Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets gram her wings, That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired,"... | |
 | Earl George Simon Harcourt Harcourt - Great Britain - 1806 - 90 pages
...fecrecy of defert cell, And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair"d. The front of the grotto... | |
 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1806 - 600 pages
...perfonifies Wifdom ; " Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impaired.'* ' And Pope, in his Windfor... | |
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