 | British drama - 1811 - 624 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 so ruffled, and sometimes inipair'd. He, that has light within his own clear... | |
 | English drama - 1811 - 620 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 so ruffled, and sometimes impairM. He, that has light within his own clear... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 802 pages
...desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitnde, Whert 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 rnffled, and sometimes impaired. " The front of the grotto is partially... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 pages
...flat sea sunk ; and wisdom's self 37,5 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. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 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 ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 622 pages
...tlat 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 too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | 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 - 852 pages
...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 the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. " The front of the grotto is partially... | |
 | Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 354 pages
...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 too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | 1755 - 262 pages
...tiful |ines : " And wisdom's self " Oft seeks to such retired solitudes, *' Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, " She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, " That, in the various b.islle of resort, '.' Were ail-to ruffled and sometimes impair'd." This solitary situation of a parish... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1815 - 598 pages
...the following paflages. Milton thus perlbnines Wifdom ; " Wifdom's felf Oft fecks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation,...buftle of refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impaired." ' And Pope, in his Windfor Foreft, thus defcribes th<j effects of Peace : " Exil'd by thee... | |
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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... 
