 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, Where with her best nurse contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her...  Comus: A Mask - Page 30by John Milton - 1858 - 90 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 408 pages
...dexterity in " contending with a great original." You remember these lines of Milton in his Comus, » Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. On which Dr. Warburton has the following; O note. " Mr. Pope has imitated this thought and... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 390 pages
...with a great original." v ; • . r You remember these lines of Milton in his Comus, , . . rvt • Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and Jets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort • • '- T. , " **•.•' • i , Were... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 374 pages
...retired Solitude, Where, with -her hest nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets gnow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. "On which Dr. Warburton has the following note. "Mr. Pope has imitated this thought and (as... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 380 pages
...these lines of Milton in his ..:. o, !•: i. .; wisdom^ seeks to s-weet retired Solitude, : : Wl/ere, With her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her That in the various bustle of resort , Were all too rufled, and sometimes jmpair,d. . tii!'. vi .'.iuL;... | |
 | Henry Kett - Best books - 1812 - 500 pages
...to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation, She flumes her feathers, and tcu grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired." Paradise Lost. And Warton describes the advance of Evening : " While Evening veil'd in shadows brown... | |
 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...it may, when Wisdom herself is forced often In sweet retired solitnde 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... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 622 pages
...desires of love and promoting chastity (215). 149 \ 150 Were in the tlat sea sunk ; and wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 pages
...the desires of love and promoting chastity (215). Were in the flat sea sunk ; and wisdom's self 37,5 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 822 pages
...affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair' (i. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other creeping plants ; and,... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 802 pages
...affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitnde, Whert Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...That in the various bustle of resort Were all too rnffled, and sometimes impaired. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other... | |
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