 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
 | John McVickar - 1836 - 528 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 too ruffled." I should have preferred for my retreat, however, that season when all nature puts on an aspect of cheerfulness.... | |
 | 1843 - 708 lehte
...to meet retired solitude, Wherewith 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 impaired." COMUS Composition is an art requiring more of pains and thought, than... | |
 | George Pope Morris, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1844 - 530 lehte
...may whisper solitude is sweet." The soul of a journey is liberty; perfect liberty, to think, frei, do just as one pleases. We go a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments nnd of all inconveniences ; to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others. It is because... | |
 | 1846 - 650 lehte
...retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow tier wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and some times impaired." This passage from Milton suggests a truth which is worthy our attention, namely,... | |
 | 1846 - 476 lehte
...retired solitude, Where, with her bent nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets gruw her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too rufHed, and some times impaired." This passage from Milton suggests a truth which is worthy our attention,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1851 - 364 lehte
...fesi. . where, "with her best nurse, Contemplation," the .**%. ' .''''*^' '• IPPB^*n'. fe-j ' " Can plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various hustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired." .•.;. : It was- our first; duty.... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 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 to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast\ May sit i' the centre,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 lehte
...retired solitude; Where, with her best nurse — contemplation — She plumes her feathers, and lets go her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too muffled, and sometimes impaired. Milton. All is best, though we oft doubt What the unsearchable dispose... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 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 to ruffled, and sometimes impaired. ; He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 lehte
...that not much easy pleasure or freedom can attend the change. "The soul of a journey," says Hazlitt, "is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do, just as one pleases." This is what common people, your unseasoned Londoners, enjoy when they move about. The very names of... | |
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