 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 to ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his owne  Comus, a Maske - Page 3by John Milton - 1902 - 29 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English essays - 1709 - 388 pages
...flat fea funk. And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude : Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftje of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd : He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1777 - 374 pages
...flat fea funk : and wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude ; Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 320 pages
...flat fea funk. And wifdom's felf 375 Oft feeks to fweet retir'd folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 334 pages
...flat fea funk. And wifdom's felf 375 Oft fecks to fweet retir'd folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 332 pages
...fiat fea funk. And wifdom's felf 375 Oft fecks to fweet retir'd fulitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 320 pages
...the flat fea funk. And wifdom's felf Oft fceks to fweet retir'd folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1780 - 340 pages
...flat fea funk; and Wifdom's felf " Oft' feeks to fweet retired folitude, "Where with herbcft nurfe, Contemplation, " She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings. " That in the various buftle of refort " Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. " He that has light within his own... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1785 - 456 pages
...the sense of altogether (which Mr. Warton has judiciously restored) is used in the same context, " She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, " That in the various bustle of resort " Were aU-to ruffled " In North's Plutarch is a passage which will confirm the observation above: " setting... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
..."FLAT." Again, B. ii. 222. Of beauty. All Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all to ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | 1787 - 182 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 Buftle of Refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair M. after having puffed the Buft of Locke,... | |
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