 | John Milton - 1910 - 408 pages
...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 her wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...Lost. Bk. ix. Line 24<i 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 ill too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 4-754 Milton : Comas. Line 37i. The... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1912 - 198 pages
...the fiat 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 her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all to-ruffled,1 and sometimes impaired. He, that has light within his own clear... | |
 | Lighting - 1910 - 746 pages
...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 her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1913 - 264 pages
...Retirement; see Society. 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. Milton: Comus. Remote from man, with... | |
 | John Milton - 1919 - 276 pages
...sea sunk. And Wisdom's self A ! 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 to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. ,-- .380 He that has light within... | |
 | Leslie Nathan Broughton - Comparative literature - 1920 - 214 pages
...best able to grow. And 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 to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. Milton, Comits 375—380. " All noble... | |
 | Mabel Irene Rich - American literature - 1921 - 582 pages
...flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 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 to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. 3«o He that has light within his own... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 pages
...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 her wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. aw He that has light within his own... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1924 - 240 pages
...Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea funk. And Wifdoms felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation She plumes...feathers, and lets grow her wings That in the various busfle of refort Were all to ruffl'd, and fomtimes impair'd. He that has light within his own cleer... | |
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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... 
