 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...  Lectures on the British Poets - Page 212by Henry Reed - 1860Full view - About this book
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 802 pages
...affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitnde, Whert Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...That in the various bustle of resort Were all too rnffled, and sometimes impaired. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 480 pages
...quarto has been followed. MALONE. Milton, in his Comus, might here have been indebted to Shakspeare: " Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her...though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." STEEVENS. * Come, civil night,'] Civil is grave, decently solemn. JOHNSON. See As you like it, Vol.... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 622 pages
...is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon .) Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask or drama, and furher explained... | |
 | Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 354 pages
...is not) 37Q Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon (374-.) Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask or drama, and furher... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 pages
...is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask pr drama, and further explained... | |
 | 1755 - 262 pages
...when he wrote those beautiful lines ; " And wisdom's self " Oft seeks to such retired solitudes, " Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, " She plumes...feathers, and lets grow her wings, " That, in the various bastle of resort, »' Were ail-to ruffled and sometimes impair'd." This solitary situation of a parish... | |
 | Nuneham Courtenay (England) - 1814 - 198 pages
...pensiv» secrecy of desert Cell; And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, a 3 AVhere with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her Feathers, and lets grow her wing*, That in the various Bustle of Resort Were all too ruffled, ami sometimes impaired'. Proceeding... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1815 - 598 pages
...perlbnines Wifdom ; " Wifdom's felf Oft fecks 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...she is not) Could stir the constant tnood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own...with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feaihtrs, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all 100 ruffled, and sometimes... | |
 | Thomas Gray, John Mitford - 1816 - 618 pages
...forced often— « ; . • -! ' •• • f In sweet retired solitude To phime her feathers and let grow her wings That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. It is a foolish thing that one can't only not live as one pleases, but where and with whom one pleases,... | |
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