 I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and...  A History of English Poetry - Page 399by William John Courthope - 1903Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." If we now pause to take a retrospect of our best prose writers from 1580 to the restoration in 1660,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pages
...with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." If we now pause to take a retrospect of our best prose writers from 1580 to the restoration in 1660,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." " We see him, however, under the oppression of all this cheerless and foreign matter, indulging in... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from beholding the bright countenance of truth in...stuffings; who when they have, like good sumpters, laid you down their horse-load of citations and fathers at your door, with a rhapsody of who and who were... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...with chearful and confident thoughts, to einbark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from beholding the bright countenance of truth in...stuffings; who when they have, like good sumpters, laid you down their horse-load of citations and fathers at your door, with a rhapsody of who and who were... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from beholding the bright countenance of truth in...marginal stuffings; who when they have, like good eumpters, laid you down their horse-load of citations and fathers at your door, with a rhapsody of... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in...delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of kollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to club quotations with men -whose learning... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse dis.putes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Mr. Warton, who has cited the last sentence of this very interesting passage, as a proof that Milton,... | |
 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." i We see him however, under the oppression of all this cheerless and foreign matter, indulging in the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from beholding the bright countenance of Truth in...still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to club quotations with... | |
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