 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...  A Letter to Mr. Mason: On the Marks of Imitation - Page 43by Richard Hurd - 1757 - 76 lehteFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 lehte
...flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self 375 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 ruflled, and sometimes impair^. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | 1825 - 628 lehte
...retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Helyot) HUt. des Ordres Monastiques, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. But this kind of seclusion is not to... | |
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...* ' 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, it was to recover... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 lehte
...the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, here the olive grove of Aeademe, Plato's retirement, where the Attie bird Trills her bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes Impair'd. He that has light within his own elear... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 lehte
..." 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, it was to recover... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 638 lehte
...retired solitude, AVhere with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Hrlynt, Hist. des Ordres Monastiques, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. But this kind of seclusion is not to... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 lehte
...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 within his own clear... | |
 | Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1827 - 342 lehte
...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 passages to be found... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1829 - 398 lehte
...says — Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; vOL. I. I 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 impaired. Camus. The lesser Periwinkle, Vinca... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1830 - 426 lehte
...great: — " For Wisdom's self " Oft seeks to such retired solitudes, " 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. * * In August and September last,... | |
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