...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...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all so ruffled, and sometimes inipair'd. He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' tli'...

...stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could sec to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light,...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all so ruffled, and sometimes impairM. He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th* centre...

...dexterity in " contending with a great original." You remember these lines of Milton in his Comus, » Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. On which Dr. Warburton has the following; O note. " Mr. Pope has imitated this thought and (as was...

...with a great original." v ; • . r You remember these lines of Milton in his Comus, , . . rvt • Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and Jets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort • • '- T. , " **•.•' • i , Were...

...retired Solitude, Where, with -her hest nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets gnow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. "On which Dr. Warburton has the following note. "Mr. Pope has imitated this thought and (as was always...

..., " Milton catched at this image, and has run it into a sort of paraphrase, in those fine lines, -" Virtue could see to do what virtue would " By her own radiant light, tho' Sun and Mooq ** Were in the flat sea sunk— COMUS, In Spenser's fine" we have the idea of Virtue...

...it may, when Wisdom herself is forced often In sweet retired solitnde 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...

...to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation, She flumes her feathers, and tcu grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired." Paradise Lost. And Warton describes the advance of Evening : " While Evening veil'd in shadows...

...affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other creeping plants ; and, through an...

...affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair' (i. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other creeping plants ; and,...