 | Missions - 1804 - 664 pages
...perhaps, is not impartially just •, will turnish our English readers with no bad motto to this book. " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude : Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She |>luraes her feathers, lets grow he? wings, . That, in the various bustle of resort, Were, all too... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1803 - 572 pages
...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 to sweet retired solitude...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... | |
 | 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,"... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 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...Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her \vings° That in the hustling hurry oi'rebort, Were all too ruffled, and sometime* impair'd. As these... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 348 pages
...to do what Virtue would -v By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude : Where, with her beet nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 822 pages
...a piece of marble, are these lines from Coraus : Musing meditation most affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in... | |
 | Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 354 pages
...desires of love and promoting chastity (2 1.5). 149 Were in the; flat sea sunk ; and wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse contemplation, v> r. She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all... | |
 | Nuneham Courtenay (England) - 1814 - 198 pages
...are inscribed these Verses, from the Comus of Milton : Musing Meditation most affects The pensiv» secrecy of desert Cell; And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, a 3 AVhere with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her Feathers, and lets grow her wing*, That... | |
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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 feathers and lets grow lier wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, 380. Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes... 
