 | 1835 - 292 ページ
...poem in praise of Monte Olivetto, the monastery at Naples where he had been so hospitably received. Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Where all too ruffled, and... | |
 | John McVickar - 1836 - 528 ページ
...may plead Milton's authority for the latter part of his sentiment, who very elegantly tells us that " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...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." I should... | |
 | John Brown Patterson - 1837 - 496 ページ
...images of life and loveliness, by communing with the beautiful and permanent forms of Nature: " For Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...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... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 ページ
...if he regards Truth, let him expect martyrdom on both sides, and then he may go on fearless. DE FOE. WISDOM'S self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude;...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... | |
 | 1837 - 844 ページ
...nature, unseen by human eye, he held sweet communion with his '• Father who eeeth in secret." •• Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude. Where with her best nurse, contemplation. She plume» her feathers, and lets grow her icngs, That in the various bustle of resort Were ¿U too ruffled,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 ページ
...want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming...moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, AVhere,with her best nurse Contemplation, She plumes her feathers,... | |
 | Thomas Goyder - 1838 - 678 ページ
...idea that light corresponded to truth, and to some internal perception of mind ; for he says — " Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own...light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day : But he... | |
 | William Gresley - 1838 - 384 ページ
...spiritual and temporal, I remain your sincere friend, GH CHAPTER IX. THE CHURCHMAN IN HIS CLOSET. " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude...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... | |
 | J. Slade - 1838 - 370 ページ
...direction, have attracted me ofttimes in the day, and called forth some of my profoundest meditations. " Wisdom's self " Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude...with her best nurse, Contemplation, " She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings." But it was at eve that I most admired the spot, and that every... | |
 | Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 1970 - 412 ページ
...populos dat iura. * TT61000 S4 Tf|V TUpOWOV dtvSpCGTTOIS \l6\rt\V. Vertue could see to do what vertue would By her own radiant light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea sunk; and in 588-9: Vertue may be assail'd, but never hurt, Surpriz'd by unjust force, but not enthrall'd. Of... | |
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Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in 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... 
