...instinct than design, as though sauntering into a domain of unexplored tranquillity, wherein / beheld the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,3 and began, for gladness, to extend its bounds. This ancient manner, with its undulations...

...of no lesse hopes than these ... to imbark in a troubl'd sea of noises and hoars disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies" (821822). In Lycidas, the still and quiet air of studies is punctuated by the "Oaten Flute" and by...

...cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...