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... Comus: A Mask - Page 32by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
| British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...it may, when Wisdom herself is forced often In sweet retired solitude To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impairM. t It is a foolish thing that without money one cannot either live as one pleases, or where... | |
| James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 358 pages
...the ease and indolent enjoyments connected with rural retirement. 'Arid Wisdom's self Oft seeks the sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, ami lets grow her wings, That in the bustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, ami sometimes... | |
| Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...may, when Wisdom herself is forced often In twect retired solinuV v To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort. Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. It is a foolish thing that without money one cannot either live , as one pleases, or where... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...it may, when wisdom herself is forced often in sweet retired solitude To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. It is a foolish thing that without money one cannot either live as one pleases, or where... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, Hie ise as Nature, and as fix'd as Fate. ail-to ruffled, and sometimes iinpair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i'... | |
| John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...mis-becoming plight. 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...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' center, and enjoy bright day... | |
| 1821 - 746 pages
...soul within its own keeping : — there In sweet retired solitude, She plumed lier feathers, and let ever aims at either, that I can discover — and has a spirit, that would stan sometime impair'd. But whither am I wandering? — Oh ! I remember, I was taking you into White's.... | |
| British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...misbecoming plight. 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...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day... | |
| 1822 - 356 pages
...for the ease and indolent enjoyments connected with rural retirement. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks the sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse...her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the bustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes iropair'd. As these dispositions and... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 594 pages
...breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters, where Contemplation " May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired, " that I absent myself from the town for awhile, without feeling at a loss the moment I am left by... | |
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