 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
 | Christianity - 1825 - 628 pages
...desire to have some time to itself, undisturbed by the calls of business, or even of friendship : " And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Helyot) HUt. des Ordres Monastiques, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...is not) 370 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 radiant ПцЫ, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...Could stir the eonstant mood of her ealm thoughts, And put them into misbeeoming plight Virtue eould se, /Eoh'an the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes Impair'd. He that has light within... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...often shut myself up." v< The occasion ?" asked Tremaine. " Why wisdom's self, you know, ' Oft seeks a 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 sometime impair'd." "But seriously, it was... | |
 | Scotland - 1825 - 810 pages
...shut myself up." " ' The occasion ?' asked Tremaine. " ' Why, wisdom's self, you know, * Oft seeks a 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 ruined, and sometimes impair'd.' " ' But seriously, it was... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 pages
...often shut myself up." " The occasion ?" asked Tremaine. " Why wisdom's self, you know, ' Oft seeks a sweet retired solitude, ' Where, with her best nurse,...She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, ' 'lliat in the various bustle of resort ' Were all too ruffled, and sometime impair'd." " But seriously,... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 648 pages
...naturally desire to have some time to itself, undisturbed by the calls of business, or even of friendship : And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Helyot, Hi«.t. des Ordres Monastiquen, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wing», That... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...she 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...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could sec 0 ~ ' U]m7xbO 'H $ H 6 R9 6 1L ...+ ,v e[ é) 3 " x :P"J V A)K4 yN ?T c 3 u FdbWJY : ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 554 pages
...night is Cupid's day.' Milton, in his Comus, might have been indebted to Shakspeare : — ' Virtue can see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.' 5 Civil is grave, solemn. Come, gentle night; come, loving, black- brow'd night7, Give me my Romeo... | |
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