| 1807 - 592 pages
...despicable assistant to virtue. 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 raffled, and sometimes impair'd. " The effects of the objects of taste... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom'* 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. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 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 ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He, that has light within his own clear... | |
| 1810 - 202 pages
...secrecy of desert Cell; 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. Proceeding through a continuation of... | |
| 1810 - 430 pages
...secrecy of desert Cell; 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. Proceeding through a continuation of... | |
| William Hayley - 1810 - 418 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 ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He, that has light within his own clear... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, ibe plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bnstle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Fie that has light within his own clear... | |
| 1811 - 620 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 so ruffled, and sometimes impairM. He, that has light within his own clear... | |
| British drama - 1811 - 624 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 so ruffled, and sometimes inipair'd. He, that has light within his own clear... | |
| Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 374 pages
.... , • . > ." ".'. 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. . i On which Dr. Warburton has the following... | |
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