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...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... | |
| John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
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| 1821 - 746 pages
...overflown soul within its own keeping :—there In sweet retired solitude, She plumed her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometime hnpair'd. But whither am I wandering?— Oh ! I remember, I was taking you... | |
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| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 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 rufHed, and sometimes impairM," that I absent myself from the town for awhile, without feeling... | |
| 1822 - 600 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 impair'd," that I absent myself from the town for a while, without feeling... | |
| 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... | |
| English essays - 1823 - 434 pages
...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...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd : He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th'... | |
| English essays - 1823 - 344 pages
...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 hustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. As these dispositions and sentiments... | |
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