 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...  The British Essayists: The Lounger - Page 27by Alexander Chalmers - 1802Full view - About this book
 | William Gresley - 1838 - 384 pages
...remain your sincere friend, GH CHAPTER IX. THE CHURCHMAN IN HIS CLOSET. " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse,...her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." MILTON. MY dear Arthur, You... | |
 | Joseph Beaumont, Mary Tatham - 1838 - 438 pages
...eye, she held sweet communion with her " Father who seeth in secret." " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse,...her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired." To her, hours of retirement... | |
 | 1843 - 708 pages
...Milton has beautifully expressed it : " And wisdom's self Oft seeks 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... | |
 | 1839 - 836 pages
...the works of thy hands." Milton also has "musing meditation: " and says that wisdom " Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse...her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." In considering meditation... | |
 | 632 pages
...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to. wet retired solitud*, Where \. itli her best nurse, ii»s IT .MPT ATIOV, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustjo of resort Were «11— to ruffled, and sometimes impaired." Camat. In the next pnper... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...Sun and Moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 to various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his... | |
 | 1842 - 820 pages
...study and prayer, which were the food of his soul. " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired eolitude; 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." In that house of modest dimensions... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...her own radiant light, 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,...her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...Sun and Moon Were in the flat sea sunk, And Wisdom's eelf Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...Sun and Moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 oors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep. By whisp ilie various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within... | |
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