 | 1755 - 262 pages
...tiful |ines : " And wisdom's self " Oft seeks to such retired solitudes, *' Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, " She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, " That, in the various b.islle of resort, '.' Were ail-to ruffled and sometimes impair'd." This solitary situation of a parish... | |
 | Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1815 - 598 pages
...following paflages. Milton thus perlbnines Wifdom ; " Wifdom's felf Oft fecks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation, She plumes...grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impaired." ' And Pope, in his Windfor Foreft, thus defcribes th<j... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks in sweet retired solitude: Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings. That in the variniN bu<tle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes irapair'd : He thai ha* li^ht within his... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 348 pages
...radiant light, though sun and moon 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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...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. bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes iinpair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
...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... | |
 | 1822 - 496 pages
...afterwards by George Column. See Biog. Dram. art. Comus, vol. ii. p. 62. 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... | |
 | 1822 - 356 pages
...rural retirement. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks the sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse Contemplation, She plumes 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... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...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... | |
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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... 
