 And 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...  Notes and Queries - Pągina 1491871Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pągines
...smeel retired solitude,] At first he had written the verse thus, Oft seeks to solitary sweet retire. 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 ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. sso Examynacyon of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pągines
...seeks to solitary sweet retire. 3/6. For the same uncommon use of seek, Mr. Bowle cites Bale's VWhere with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. sso Examynacyon of... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 370 pągines
...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 grow her wings, ' 'lliat in the various bustle of resort ' Were all too ruffled, and sometime impair'd." " But seriously,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pągines
...though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, us walks and shades ; See there the olive grove of Aeademe, Plato's retirement, where the A That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes Impair'd. He that has light... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pągines
...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 grow her wings, ' That in the various bustle of resort ' Were all too ruffled, and sometime impair'd." "But seriously,... | |
 | 1825 - 848 pągines
...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 grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair' d.' " ' But seriously,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pągines
...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 wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light... | |
 | Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1827 - 342 pągines
...imagination bodies forth? What wisdom is so noble as that " Which 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 ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." The most touching... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pągines
...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 wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." Cowper has personified... | |
 | 1829 - 804 pągines
...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 wings, Th.u in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd : He that has light... | |
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