 | John Milton - 1824 - 428 pages
...Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light,...moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, " presses. For every paren" thesis should contain matter of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...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...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. sso Examynacyon of A. Askew, p. 24. " Hath not he moche nede of... | |
 | 1825 - 628 pages
...retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Helyot) HUt. des Ordres Monastiques, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings,...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. But this kind of seclusion is not to be found in a monastery, though worm and youthful fancies... | |
 | 1825 - 848 pages
...shut myself up.' " ' The occasion ?' asked Tremaine. * ' Why, wisdom's self, you know, ' Oft seeks a sweet retired solitude. Where, with her best nurse...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair' d.' " ' But seriously, it was to recover the bent of my mind — I may even say of my virtue... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...often shut myself up." v< The occasion ?" asked Tremaine. " Why wisdom's self, you know, ' Oft seeks a sweet retired solitude, * Where, with her best nurse,...various bustle of resort ' Were all too ruffled, and sometime impair'd." "But seriously, it was to recover the bent of my mind — I may even say of my... | |
 | 1825 - 810 pages
...shut myself up." " ' The occasion ?' asked Tremaine. " ' Why, wisdom's self, you know, * Oft seeks a sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse...That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruined, and sometimes impair'd.' " ' But seriously, it was to recover the bent of my mind — I may... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 638 pages
...retired solitude, AVhere with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Hrlynt, Hist. des Ordres Monastiques, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings,...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. But this kind of seclusion is not to be found in a monastery, though warm and youthful fancies... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into mis-becoming plight. Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light,...sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i'th' centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1826 - 840 pages
...stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could sec 0 ~ ' U]m7xbO 'H $ H 6 R9 6 1L ...+ ,v e[ é) 3 " x :P"J V A)K4 yN ?T c 3 u FdbWJY : ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 540 pages
...night is Cupid's day.' Milton, in his Comus, might have been indebted to Shakspeare:— ' Virtue can see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.' 5 Civil is grave, solemn. Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-brow'd night 7 , Give me my Romeo:... | |
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Virtue could see to do what virtue would By 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, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow... 
