 | John Milton - 1747 - Počet stránok 240
...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... | |
 | Tatler - 1754 - Počet stránok 338
...' 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 - 1760 - Počet stránok 220
...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 - 1769 - Počet stránok 600
...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 - Počet stránok 458
...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... | |
 | 1709 - Počet stránok 388
...to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though fun and moos Were in the flat fea funk. And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude...feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftje of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd : He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | 1777 - Počet stránok 380
...would ' By her own radiant light, though fon and moon ' Were in the flat fea funk : and wifdom's felt ' Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude ; ' Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, 4 She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, ' That in the various buftle of refoft ' Were all... | |
 | Henry Mackenzie - 1783 - Počet stránok 340
...for the eafe and indolent enjoyments connected with rural retirement. And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks the fweet retired folitude, Where, with her beft nurfe,...her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in the hurtling hurry of refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. As thefe difpofitions and fentiments... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1785 - Počet stránok 456
...the sense of altogether (which Mr. Warton has judiciously restored) is used in the same context, " She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, " That in the various bustle of resort " Were ail-to ruffled " In North's Plutarch is a passage which will confirm the observation... | |
 | John Bell - 1788 - Počet stránok 628
...flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 37? 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. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
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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... 
