 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 518 pages
...small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and* leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident...antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to club quotations with men whose learning and belief lies in marginal stuffings, who when they... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...small willingness I endure to interrupt the i pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident...antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to club quotations with men whose learning and belief lies in marginal stuffings, who, when they... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 574 pages
...party. Milton enters upon his task with a solemn expression of " small willingness to leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." t Cleaveland rushes into the fray with an alacrity that suits his impetuous nature : — " Ring the... | |
 | 1952 - 708 pages
...poetry was your real avocation and that it was with reluctance that you had decided to "leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident...in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes." Obviously they are not ever works of detached philosophical speculation, or of disinterested learning,... | |
 | Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 58 pages
...upbraided to us, that "the way of the wicked is as darkness, they stumble at they know not what". 40 a. 5. Put from beholding the bright countenance of truth...come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities. 44 b. 6. How have they disfigured and defaced that more than angelic brightness, the unclouded serenity... | |
 | Andrew V. Ettin - 1994 - 236 pages
...forswearing." Only the urgency of the prophetic moment compels Milton himself to abandon "a calm and pleasing solitariness fed with cheerful and confident...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Sharp but saving words: in like spirit he observes that, "although divine inspiration must certainly... | |
 | Lana Cable - 1995 - 252 pages
...already vulgar temporal controversy that was further tainted by the conditions of the marketplace. He was "put from beholding the bright countenance of truth...still air of delightful studies to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to club quotations."1 Like... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 pages
...solitarynes fed with cherful and confident thoughts, to imbark in a troubl'd sea of noises and hoars disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightfull studies to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk,... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness fed with cheerful and confident...still air of delightful studies to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk' (241). To make matters worse, he had discovered... | |
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I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and... 
