 | English drama - 1797 - 468 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 50 " Were all to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. " He, that has light within his... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 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... | |
 | John Brewster - 1802 - 330 pages
...Meditation. —— And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Wliert, with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustles of resort Were * all to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. MILTON. W HEN the mind of man is fully... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 260 pages
...describing it ? 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 244 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 tlie bustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. As these dispositions... | |
 | 1803 - 200 pages
...fecrecy of defert Cell, And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bultle of Refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. The front of the Grotto is almoft concealed... | |
 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1803 - 512 pages
...retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation, SheX«*« her feathers, and lets gr<™ her wings, That in the various buftle of refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impaired'.'1; .^ And Warton defcribes the advance of Evening ; . '. " While Evenin? veil'd in fhadows... | |
 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1805 - 432 pages
...personifies Wisdorn, " Wisdom's self Oft seels 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 impaired," Par. Lost. And Warton describes the... | |
 | Nuneham Courtenay - Manors - 1806 - 84 pages
...fecrecy of defert cell, And Wifdom's felf Oft feelcs to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and...refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other creeping plants, and through an opening... | |
 | Earl George Simon Harcourt Harcourt - Great Britain - 1806 - 90 pages
...fecrecy of defert cell, And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and...refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair"d. The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other creeping plants, and through an opening... | |
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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... 
