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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. "
Comus: A Mask - Page 29
by John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 66 pages
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...Virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) Could...By her own radiant light, tho' sun and moon Were in tho flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet, retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: A New Edition Carefully Revised from the ...

John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) Could...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,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life ...

John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) Could...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...
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Lectures on the British Poets, Volume 1

Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...some of his dramas ; and, again, traces of the matchless spirituality of Spenser. In the lines, — " 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...
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English Synonyms ...

George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...***** And makes us rather hear those ills we have, ***** Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk Coma, 373. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can...
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The Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 836 pages
...beauties:] Steevens observed that Milton, in his "Comus," might have been indebted to this passage: — " d do allow thein though sun and moon Were in the Hat sea sunk." f Grown hold, — ] An emendation of Rowe's; the old...
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Village belles [by A. Manning] 3 vols. By the author of 'Mary Powell'.

Anne Manning - 1859 - 366 pages
...Virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, Is that the simple want of light and noise Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming flight." Insensibility to kindness was not one of Lady Worral's faults. She was quite aware that Hannah's...
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The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises ...

Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise, (Not being in danger, as, I trust, she is not) . Could...to do what virtue would, By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit...
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Milton's Comus, with explanatory notes, and Life of Milton. [2 pt. The title ...

John Milton - 1860 - 134 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,...to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude...
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Milton's Comus: Uebersetzt und mit einer erläuternden Abhandlung begleitet ...

John Milton - 1860 - 76 pages
...erinnert uno gIeiфfatlé an bíe Symbolif ber $На1отГ.феп @»гафе. 3^ûr bie Singangéworte: Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, №е1фе £obb mit bem [фон citirten @ф1и£ Ьей 2Haefenfpíeí$ Pleas, rec. to Virtue unb...
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