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 29by John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 76 pages
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