...dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest." Milton thus personifies Wisdorn, " Wisdom's self Oft seels to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse...That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired," Par. Lost. And Warton describes the advance of Evening: " While Evening...

...oft suspend the dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest." Milton thus personifies AVisdom, — " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...nurse Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets gram her wings, That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired,"...

...perfonifies Wifdom ; " Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impaired.'* ' And Pope, in his Windfor Foreft,...

...of defert cell, And Wifdom's felf Oft feelcs to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. The front of the grotto is partially...

...fecrecy of defert cell, And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair"d. The front of the grotto is partially...

...Virtue would By her own radiant light, tliough sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom'* self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where with...That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' center,...

...enthusiastic admirer of the wild beauties of simple nature, than to favour the meditations of the sage ; for wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...contemplation, She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings. It is scarcely possible, indeed, to enter the confines of this sequestered region, without being subjected...

...for the ease and indolent enjoyments connected with rural retirement. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks the sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse...Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her \vings° That in the hustling hurry oi'rebort, Were all too ruffled, and sometime* impair'd. As these...

...it may, when Wisdom herself is forced often in sweet retired Solitude To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of Resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. It is a foolish thing that without Money one cannot either live as...

...would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat s?a sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with...wings, That in the various bustle of resort . . . Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes imp&ir'd. 330 He, that has light within his own clear breast. May sit...