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... John Milton: the Patriot and Poet - الصفحة 76بواسطة Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 235عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Thomas Gray - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 728
...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 one pleases, or where and with whom... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would -v By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were...seeks to sweet retired solitude : Where, with her beet nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle... | |
| John Milton - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 96
...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 Were in the flat s?a sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...quarto has heen followed. Malone. Milton, in his Comus, might here have heen indehted to Shakspeare : " Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her...though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." Steevens. s Come, civil night. ' Civil is grave, decently solemn. Johnson. See Asyou Like it. Vol.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 482
...quaito 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. s Come, civil night,] Civil is grave, decently solemn. Johnson. See As you Like it. Vol.... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...she is not,) CouM 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...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 breast May sit i' the... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...she is not,) 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...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 breast May sit i' the... | |
| 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 202
...Verses, from the Cum us of Milton : Musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert Cell; And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...Resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Proceeding through a continuation of the same Shrubbery, (which appears to grow on rocky ground,) after... | |
| 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...Verses, from the Comus of Milton : Musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert Cell; And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...Resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Proceeding through a continuation of the same Shrubbery, (which appears to grow on rocky ground,) after... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...Could stir the constant mood of her cal in thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue couM see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light,...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, ibe plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings,... | |
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