 | Henry Kett - Books and reading - 1806 - 600 pages
...thus perfonifies Wifdom ; " Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and...buftle of refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impaired.'* ' And Pope, in his Windfor Foreft, thus defcribes the (gffects of Peace : " Exil'd by tbee... | |
 | 1806 - 194 pages
...felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, . • Sheplumes her Feathers, and lets grow her Wings, That in the various Buftle of Refort Were a)l too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. proceeding through a continuation of the fame Shrubbery (which... | |
 | 1807 - 592 pages
...despicable assistant to virtue. 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 raffled, and sometimes impair'd. " The effects of the objects of taste... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom'* 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. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 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... | |
 | 1810 - 202 pages
...secrecy of desert Cell; 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. Proceeding through a continuation of... | |
 | 1810 - 430 pages
...secrecy of desert Cell; 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. Proceeding through a continuation of... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, ibe plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bnstle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Fie that has light within his own clear... | |
 | Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 374 pages
.... , • . > ." ".'. 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. . i On which Dr. Warburton has the following... | |
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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... 
