| British poets - 1824 - 676 Seiten
...wants. Ibid. RETIREMENT. Wisdom's self Oft seeks so 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. Milton's Comus, Dear solitary groves,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 Seiten
...flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self 375 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 ruflled, and sometimes impair^. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - 460 Seiten
...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 her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
| 1825 - 628 Seiten
...retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Helyot) HUt. des Ordres Monastiques, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. But this kind of seclusion is not to... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 Seiten
..." Why wisdom's self, you know, ' Oft seeks a 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 sometime impair'd." "But seriously, it was to recover... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, here the olive grove of Aeademe, Plato's retirement, where the Attie bird Trills her bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes Impair'd. He that has light within his own elear... | |
| 1825 - 848 Seiten
...* ' Why, wisdom's self, you know, ' Oft seeks a 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.' " ' But seriously, it was to recover... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 638 Seiten
...retired solitude, AVhere with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Hrlynt, Hist. des Ordres Monastiques, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. But this kind of seclusion is not to... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 312 Seiten
...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 her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
| Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1827 - 342 Seiten
...What wisdom is so noble as that " Which 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 ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." The most touching passages to be found... | |
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