 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
 | John Aikin - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, Hie ise as Nature, and as fix'd as Fate. ail-to ruffled, and sometimes iinpair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...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. 9Come, CIVIL night,] Ci vil is grave, decently solemn. JOHNSON. So, in our poet's Lover's... | |
 | 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 746
...soul within its own keeping : — there In sweet retired solitude, She plumed lier feathers, and let ever aims at either, that I can discover — and has a spirit, that would stan sometime impair'd. But whither am I wandering? — Oh ! I remember, I was taking you into White's.... | |
 | 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...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...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude : y Milton's ' Comus' was originally set by Henry Lawes, and first published by him in 1637, with a... | |
 | 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 356
...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...her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the bustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes iropair'd. As these dispositions and... | |
 | 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters, where Contemplation " May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd," that I absent myself from the town for a while, without feeling at a loss the moment I am left by myself.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 598
...breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters, where Contemplation " May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd," that I absent myself from the town for awhile, without feeling at a loss the moment I am left by myself.... | |
 | 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters, where Contemplation u May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impairM," that I absent myself from the town for a while, without feeling at a loss the moment I am... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 594
...breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters, where Contemplation " May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired, " that I absent myself from the town for awhile, without feeling at a loss the moment I am... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 220
...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... | |
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