 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1836
...Tremaine. " 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 the... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837
...on fearless. DE FOE. 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... | |
 | John Brown Patterson - 1837
...forms of Nature: " For 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 bustles of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." Mr Patterson possessed a large share... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Clement Calhoun Young - 1905 - 595 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 bussle of resort, Were all to ruffl'd, and somtimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | John Milton - 1904 - 165 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, aso Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own... | |
 | 1896
...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 38o Were all to-ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. 360. A fortune teller would cast... | |
 | John Milton - 1907 - 117 Seiten
...words in Comus : 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 to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. We find in Comus abundant reminiscences... | |
 | John Milton - 1908
...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 to-ruffled and sometimes impaired. \ 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | John Milton - 1908 - 554 Seiten
...the flat Sea sunk. And Wisdoms 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 bussle of resort Were all to ruffl'd, and somtimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own cleer... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909
...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 to-ruffled and sometimes impaired. 380 He that has light within his own clear... | |
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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... 
