 | John McVickar - 1836 - 528 pages
...may plead Milton's authority for the latter part of his sentiment, who very elegantly tells us that " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled." I should have preferred for my retreat, however, that season when all nature puts on an aspect of cheerfulness.... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1836 - 780 pages
...often shut myself up." " The occasion ?" asked Tremaine. " Why wisdom's self, you know, Oft seeks a sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse,...various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometime impair'd. . "But seriously, it was to recover the bent of my mind — I may even say of my... | |
 | John McVickar - 1836 - 536 pages
...may plead Milton's authority for the latter part of his sentiment, who very elegantly tells us that " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...Contemplation, She plumes her feathers. and lets grow her winus. That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled." I should have preferred for my retreat,... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...if he regards Truth, let him expect martyrdom on both sides, and then he may go on fearless. DE FOE. WISDOM'S self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude;...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... | |
 | John Brown Patterson - 1837 - 496 pages
...images of life and loveliness, by communing with the beautiful and permanent forms of Nature: " For Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustles of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." Mr Patterson possessed a large share... | |
 | Joseph Beaumont, Mary Tatham - Methodist women - 1838 - 438 pages
...country, where, unseen by human eye, she held sweet communion with her " Father who seeth in secret." " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired." To her, hours of retirement were invaluable, they became so pregnant with deep-seated thought,... | |
 | William Gresley - England - 1838 - 384 pages
...spiritual and temporal, I remain your sincere friend, GH CHAPTER IX. THE CHURCHMAN IN HIS CLOSET. " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude...wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." MILTON. MY dear Arthur, You will see from my former letters... | |
 | United States - 1843 - 708 pages
...Milton has beautifully expressed it : " And wisdom's self Oft seeks to meet retired solitude, Wherewith her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers,...That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruflled and sometimes impaired." COMUS Composition is an art requiring more of pains and thought, than... | |
 | J. Slade - Phrenology - 1838 - 370 pages
...direction, have attracted me ofttimes in the day, and called forth some of my profoundest meditations. " Wisdom's self " Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude...She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings." But it was at eve that I most admired the spot, and that every thing calculated to tranquillize the... | |
 | J. Slade - Phrenology - 1838 - 400 pages
...direction, have attracted me ofttimes in the day, and called forth some of my profoundest meditations. " Wisdom's self " Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude;...She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings." But it was at eve that I most admired the spot, and that every thing calculated to tranquillize the... | |
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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... 
