 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...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Strana 168podľa John Milton - 1852Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - Počet stránok 572
...plight. Vir:ue cou'd se to *!o what vir:ue would By her own radiant light, though sun and rroon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to...nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and l-ts jjrow her wings, That in 'he various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - Počet stránok 432
...dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest." Milton thus personifies Wisdorn, " Wisdom's self Oft seels to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse...wings, That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired," Par. Lost. And Warton describes the advance of Evening: "... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - Počet stránok 422
...oft suspend the dashing oar, To bid his gentle spirit rest." Milton thus personifies AVisdom, — " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...nurse Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets gram her wings, That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired,"... | |
 | E. H. Seymour - 1805 - Počet stránok 500
...allto, ie altogether, according to a usage, not ofily in our author's time, but adopted by Milton :.r— •Her wings, " That in the various bustle of resort, " Were allto ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." Comus. " If the midnight bell " Did, with his iron tongue and brazen mouth, " Sound one unto the drowsy... | |
 | 1807 - Počet stránok 592
...were it only a temporary retreat from the temptations of a city, is no despicable assistant to virtue. Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...her wings, 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,"... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - Počet stránok 434
...Virtue would By her own radiant light, tliough sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom'* self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where with...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 clear breast May sit... | |
 | Isaac Weld - 1807 - Počet stránok 286
...enthusiastic admirer of the wild beauties of simple nature, than to favour the meditations of the sage ; for wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,...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 - Počet stránok 356
...for the ease and indolent 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - Počet stránok 96
...would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat s?a sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - Počet stránok 348
...plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would -v 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 beet nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle... | |
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