 | John Brown Patterson - 1837 - 496 pages
...forms of Nature: " 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, That in the various bustles of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." Mr Patterson possessed a large share... | |
 | 1843 - 708 pages
...beautifully expressed it : " And wisdom's self Oft seeks to meet retired solitude, Wherewith her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruflled and sometimes impaired." COMUS Composition is an art requiring... | |
 | William Gresley - 1838 - 384 pages
...CHURCHMAN IN HIS CLOSET. " 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-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." MILTON. MY dear Arthur, You will see... | |
 | Joseph Beaumont, Mary Tatham - 1838 - 438 pages
...who seeth in secret." " 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." To her, hours of retirement were invaluable,... | |
 | 1839 - 836 pages
...meditation: " and says that wisdom " 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." In considering meditation as subservient... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...flat sea sunk. 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 his own clear... | |
 | 632 pages
...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to. wet retired solitud*, Where \. itli her best nurse, ii»s IT .MPT ATIOV, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustjo of resort Were «11— to ruffled, and sometimes impaired." Camat. In the next pnper I « ill... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, 4訊4@G " bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | 1842 - 820 pages
...the food of his soul. " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired eolitude; 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." In that house of modest dimensions... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...the flat sea sunk. 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-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
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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... 
