 | John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.) - 1833 - 446 pages
...sentiment, who very elegantly tells us that ' Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Whore with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled.' I should have preferred for my retreat, however, that season when alj nature puts... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put...moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse Contemplation, She plumes her feathers,... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put...misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what virtue would Illy her own radiant light, though sun and moon iWere in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft... | |
 | Plato - 1834 - 482 pages
...unpolluted and unshackled mind. Wisdom's self Oft seeks to ewcct retired solitude ; Where, with her host nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustîe of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes ini[wlretl. He that has light within his own Hear... | |
 | 1835 - 496 pages
...the Indians : — " Virtue can see to do what virtue ought, By her own radiant lipht, though sun'and moon Were in the flat sea sunk; and wisdom's self...feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustles of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | South - 1835 - 300 pages
...poem in praise of Monte Olivetto, the monastery at Naples where he had been so hospitably received. Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Where all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. Probably the imagination of the poet was often raised... | |
 | 1835 - 292 pages
...poem in praise of Monte Olivetto, the monastery at Naples where he had been so hospitably received. Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Where all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. Probably the imagination of the poet was often raised... | |
 | John McVickar - 1836 - 528 pages
...may plead Milton's authority for the latter part of his sentiment, who very elegantly tells us that " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...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... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1836 - 780 pages
...often shut myself up." " The occasion ?" asked Tremaine. " Why wisdom's self, you know, Oft seeks a sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse,...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometime impair'd. . "But seriously, it was to recover the bent of my mind —... | |
 | 1871 - 614 pages
...lines from Milton's Cornus, ail-to is evidently used as an adverb : — •• Where with her beat nurse. Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and...grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Wore ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired." On this passage Warton has the following note : — "... | |
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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... 
