 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
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 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...plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He, that has light within... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Could stir the constant mood of her cal in thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue couM see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light,...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, ibe plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings,... | |
 | 1810 - 202 pages
...Verses, from the Cum us of Milton : Musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert Cell; And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...plumes her Feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various Bustle of Resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Proceeding through a continuation... | |
 | 1810 - 430 pages
...Verses, from the Comus of Milton : Musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert Cell; And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...plumes her Feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various Bustle of Resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Proceeding through a continuation... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 624 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...plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all so ruffled, and sometimes inipair'd. He, that has light within... | |
 | English drama - 1811 - 620 pages
...stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could sec to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light,...plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all so ruffled, and sometimes impairM. He, that has light within... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 408 pages
...dexterity in " contending with a great original." You remember these lines of Milton in his Comus, » Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...plumes her feathers, and lets grow her, wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. On which Dr. Warburton has... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 390 pages
...with a great original." v ; • . r You remember these lines of Milton in his Comus, , . . rvt • Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and Jets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort • • '- T. , " **•.•' • i , Were... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 380 pages
..., " Milton catched at this image, and has run it into a sort of paraphrase, in those fine lines, -" Virtue could see to do what virtue would " By her own radiant light, tho' Sun and Mooq ** Were in the flat sea sunk— COMUS, In Spenser's fine" we have the idea of Virtue... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...is not) 37p Could stir the constant mood of her calm thought*, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own...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 her... | |
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