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" Virtue could see to do what virtue would 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 best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow... "
Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ... - Page 170
by John Milton - 1810
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 5-6

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 622 pages
...ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put...would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon .) Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask or drama, and furher explained...
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Discoveries in Hieroglyphics and Other Antiquities, Volume 6

Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 354 pages
...ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 37Q Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put...would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon (374-.) Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask or drama, and furher...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 5-6

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 pages
...ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put...would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask pr drama, and further explained...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 17, Part 2

John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 802 pages
...affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitnde, Whert Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too rnffled, and sometimes impaired. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 12, Issue 2

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
...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 wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair' (i. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ..., Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 480 pages
...quarto has been followed. MALONE. Milton, in his Comus, might here have been indebted to Shakspeare: " Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her...though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." STEEVENS. * Come, civil night,'] Civil is grave, decently solemn. JOHNSON. See As you like it, Vol....
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The Omnium-gatherum: or, Bath, Bristol, and Cheltenham literary repository ...

1755 - 262 pages
...when he wrote those beautiful lines ; " And wisdom's self " Oft seeks to such retired solitudes, " Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, " She plumes...feathers, and lets grow her wings, " That, in the various bastle of resort, ยป' Were ail-to ruffled and sometimes impair'd." This solitary situation of a parish...
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The Female Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse: Selected ...

Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) Could stir the constant tnood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming...with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feaihtrs, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all 100 ruffled, and sometimes...
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Elegant extracts in poetry, Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...Virtue would By her own radiant light, though son and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's rlf Oft Seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her...Contemplation, She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wing), That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometime* impair 1. He that hath...
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The Tatler; corrected from the originals, with a preface ..., Volume 3

Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughU, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could...in 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...
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