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... The British Essayists;: Tatler - الصفحة 80بواسطة Alexander Chalmers - 1808عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 394
...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 impairM. t It is a foolish thing that without money one cannot either live as one pleases, or where... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow 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 centre, and enjoy bright day : But he, that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts. Benighted walks... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...may, when Wisdom herself is forced often In twect retired solinuV v 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... | |
| Thomas Gray, William Mason - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 548
...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... | |
| 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'... | |
| John Bowdler - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...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...that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' center, and enjoy bright day ; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts,. Benighted... | |
| 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
...Dalton, and afterwards by George Column. See Biog. Dram. art. Comus, vol. ii. p. 62. Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and...that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks... | |
| British poets - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 272
...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...that has light within his own clear breast, May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day : But he, that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks... | |
| 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.... | |
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