 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks in sweet retired solitude: Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings. That in the variniN bu<tle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes irapair'd : He thai ha* li^ht within his... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 348 pages
...radiant light, though sun and moon 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 his own clear... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 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 too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...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 too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...afterwards by George Column. See Biog. Dram. art. Comus, vol. ii. p. 62. 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 his own clear... | |
 | 1822 - 356 pages
...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 wings, That in the bustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes iropair'd. As these dispositions and... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 734 pages
...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 wings, That in the bustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. As these dispositions and sentiments... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 340 pages
...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 wings, That in the bustling hurry of resort. Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 'In a poem expressive of tender... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...first he had written the verse thus, Oft seeks to solitary sweet retire. 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 impair'd. sso Examynacyon of A. Askew, p. 24. "... | |
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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... 
