 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
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 732 pages
...often shut myself up." " The occasion ?" asked Tremaine. " Why wisdom's self, you know, ' Oft seeks a sweet retired solitude, ' Where, with her best nurse,...She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, ' 'lliat in the various bustle of resort ' Were all too ruffled, and sometime impair'd." " But seriously,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 pages
...often shut myself up." " The occasion ?" asked Tremaine. " Why wisdom's self, you know, ' Oft seeks a sweet retired solitude, ' Where, with her best nurse,...Contemplation, ' She plumes her feathers, and lets gfow her wings, ' That in the various bustle of resort ' Were all too ruffled, and sometime impair'd."... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English literature - 1825 - 728 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 11 . It is a foolish thing that without money one cannot either... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 648 pages
...some time to itself, undisturbed by the calls of business, or even of friendship : And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Helyot, Hist, des Ordres Monastiques, ti That in the various hustle of resort She plumes her feathers,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 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' centre,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...Sun and Moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes ¡mpair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i*... | |
 | John Milton - 1827 - 518 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'the centre,... | |
 | Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Art - 1827 - 342 pages
...solitude and silence the forms which imagination bodies forth? What wisdom is so noble as that " Which seeks to sweet retired Solitude ; Where, with her...wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." The most touching passages to be found in books, are those... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1827 - 346 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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 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." Cowper has personified Winter, as the " King of intimate delights,... | |
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