| British poets - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...wants. Ibid. RETIREMENT. Wisdom's self Oft seeks so 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. Milton's Comus, Dear solitary groves,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self 375 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 ruflled, and sometimes impair^. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
| British anthology - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...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 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... | |
| 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Helyot) HUt. des Ordres Monastiques, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. But this kind of seclusion is not to... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 366
..." Why wisdom's self, you know, ' Oft seeks a 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 sometime impair'd." "But seriously, it was to recover... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 600
...the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, here the olive grove of Aeademe, Plato's retirement, where the Attie bird Trills her bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes Impair'd. He that has light within his own elear... | |
| 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 848
...* ' Why, wisdom's self, you know, ' Oft seeks a 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.' " ' But seriously, it was to recover... | |
| James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 638
...retired solitude, AVhere with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Hrlynt, Hist. des Ordres Monastiques, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. But this kind of seclusion is not to... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 312
...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 her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
| Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...What wisdom is so noble as that " Which 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 ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." The most touching passages to be found... | |
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