 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...  The English Journal of Education - Stran 1491852Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Milton - 1707 - 480 strani
...ftir the conftant mood of her calm Thoughts, And put. them into mif-bccoming plight. Virtue could fee to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea funk. And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation... | |
 | Richard Hurd - 1757 - 90 strani
...Milton in his Comus, Wifdom'sfelf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, • Where with her heft 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. On which Dr. Warburton has... | |
 | Horace - 1766 - 288 strani
...Milton in his Comus, 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'd. On which Dr. Warburton has... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 strani
...powerful, that ridicule was become as unfafe as it was ineffectual *.' This *' 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 rufH'd, atid fometimes impair'd.'f * That our author... | |
 | 1709 - 388 strani
...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... | |
 | Horace - 1776 - 282 strani
...Milton in his Comus : Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fvveet 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'd. On which Bp. Warburton... | |
 | John Bell - 1777 - 374 strani
...flat fea funk : and wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude ; Where, with her belt 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 320 strani
...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... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1783 - 340 strani
...rural retirement. And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks the fweet retired folitude, Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in the hurtling hurry of refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. As thefe difpofitions and... | |
 | John Milton - 1785 - 698 strani
...FLAT." Again, B. ii. 222. Of beauty. 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... | |
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