| John Milton - 1707 - 480 pages
...though Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea funk. And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation She plumes...wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all to ruffl'd, and fometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breaft May fit i'th' Center,... | |
| 1728 - 344 pages
...AndWifdom'sfelf :Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude: -< 5 Where, with her btft Nurfe, Cvntetnplatim, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her Wings', That in the -various Buftle of Refirt ... 'JVtre all tot ruffled, and fometimes impaired: •He that has Lifht within his own clear... | |
| English poetry - 1744 - 198 pages
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| John Milton - 1747 - 240 pages
...though Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea funk i And Wifdom's fetf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude i Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wing*, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. He that has... | |
| John Milton - 1753 - 374 pages
...her own radiant light, though fun and moon YVere in the flat fea funk. And wifdom'sfelf 375 Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe...lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of reIbrt Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own cle,.r breaft... | |
| Tatler - 1754 - 338 pages
...' Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea funk. And Wif.ionfi fi If Oft Jteks tu facet retired Solitude : Where, with her beft Nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her Feathers, and lets gio'ui her Wings, That in the various Buftle of Rtfirt He that las Light within his own clear Srcaft,... | |
| Hugh Bryan - Christian life - 1760 - 220 pages
...Richard Pearftill. Vol. 2. Price bound 33. 6d. , Wifdom's felf Oft feek* to fweet retired Solitude, * Where, with her beft Nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her Feathers, and lets go her Wings ; That in the various Buftle of Mankind, We're all too ruffl'd, and fometimes impaired.... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...grown fo fhameful and To powerful, that ridicule was become as unfafe as it was ineffectual *.' This *' Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, " She plumes...in the various buftle of refort, ** Were' all too rufH'd, atid fometimes impair'd.'f * That our author laboured with an honeft zeal to reform the corruption... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...fo fhameful and fo powerful, that ridicule was become as unlafe as it was ineffectual *. This •* Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, " She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wing?, *' That in the various buftle of refort, *' Were all too ruffl'd, ahd fometlme's jmpair'd."... | |
| John Bethune - 1770 - 458 pages
...this is not what lie confiders as of moll conl'eN 3 quence . And Wifdom'i fclf, Oft fecks to Aveet retired folitude, "Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her «ing«, Which, in the various budle of refort, Were fometimes ruffled, and perhaps impaired. MILTON'S... | |
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