 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-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. 380 He that has light within his own clear...  Selected English Essays - Page 2631922 - 543 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1807 - 592 lehte
...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 raffled, and sometimes impair'd. " The effects of the objects of taste upon the human mind," says Mr.... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 624 lehte
...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 so ruffled, and sometimes inipair'd. He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' tli'... | |
 | 1811 - 620 lehte
...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 so ruffled, and sometimes impairM. He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th* centre... | |
 | John Britton - 1813 - 802 lehte
...retired solitnde, Whert 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 rnffled, and sometimes impaired. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 lehte
...sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feaihtrs, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all 100 ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that bis light within his own clear breast, May sit i' In"... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 282 lehte
...first of benefits, as well as of luxuries ; where, " with her best nurse, Contemplation," the mind Can plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired.1 It was our first duty to point out Mr. Kean's excellences... | |
 | 1821 - 746 lehte
...back his overflown soul within its own keeping : — there In sweet retired solitude, She plumed lier feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometime impair'd. But whither am I wandering? — Oh ! I remember, I was taking you into White's.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 lehte
...— — — " a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet." The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just...May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That m the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired," that I absent myself... | |
 | 1822 - 600 lehte
...I ask for • "a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper solitude is sweet." The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just...to muse on indifferent matters, where Contemplation u May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too... | |
 | 1832 - 586 lehte
...occasionally seek seclusion from the world, where contemplation " Plumes her feathers, and lets go her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled." This contemplation leads the poet to the mossy cell, to the thicket or the lea, to burns and bracken... | |
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