 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 impaired. He that has light within...  The Tatler - Pàgina 3731822Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Henry Kett - 1806 - 600 pàgines
...perfonifies Wifdom ; " Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impaired.'* ' And Pope, in his Windfor Foreft,... | |
 | Nuneham Courtenay - 1806 - 84 pàgines
...of defert cell, And Wifdom's felf Oft feelcs to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. The front of the grotto is partially... | |
 | Earl George Simon Harcourt Harcourt - 1806 - 90 pàgines
...fecrecy of defert cell, And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair"d. The front of the grotto is partially... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 pàgines
...tliough sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom'* self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes...resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' center, and enjoy bright day : But... | |
 | 1807 - 592 pàgines
...of a city, is no despicable assistant to virtue. Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes...That in the various bustle of resort Were all too raffled, and sometimes impair'd. " The effects of the objects of taste upon the human mind," says Mr.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1807 - 728 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Isaac Weld - 1807 - 286 pàgines
...than to favour the meditations of the sage ; for wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse contemplation, She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings. It is scarcely possible, indeed, to enter the confines of this sequestered region, without being subjected... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 356 pàgines
...enjoyments connected with 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 \vings° That in the hustling hurry oi'rebort, Were all too ruffled, and sometime* impair'd. As these... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 348 pàgines
...in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude : Where, with her beet nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and...that has light within his own clear breast, May sit o' th' centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 pàgines
...sun and moon Were in the flat s?a sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes...wings, That in the various bustle of resort . . . Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes imp&ir'd. 330 He, that has light within his own clear breast. May sit... | |
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