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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... "
A New Pocket Companion for Oxford: Or, Guide Through the University ... - Page 128
1787 - 152 pages
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, t cock his matin rings. Thus done the tales, to bed they creep. By whisp ilie various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within...
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College Requirements in English: For Careful Study, for the Years 1909-1915 ...

1896 - 728 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 38o Were all to-ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. 360. A fortune teller would cast...
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Milton's Comus: With Introduction and Notes by William Bell ...

John Milton - 1907 - 146 pages
...words in Comus : 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 impaired. We find in Comus abundant reminiscences...
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Complete Poetical Works

John Milton - 1908 - 586 pages
...the flat Sea sunk. And Wisdoms 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 bussle of resort Were all to ruffl'd, and somtimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own cleer...
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Selections from the Poetical Works of John Milton: With Introduction ...

John Milton - 1908 - 440 pages
...flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 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 impaired. \ 380 He that has light within his own...
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English Poems: The Elizabethan age and the Puritan period (1550-1660)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1909 - 570 pages
...flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 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 impaired. 380 He that has light within his own clear...
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The minor poems

John Milton - 1910 - 408 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 impaired. 380 He that has light within his own...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn ...

Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 pages
...Lost. Bk. ix. Line 24<i 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 ill too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 4-754 Milton : Comas. Line 37i. The...
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The Illuminating Engineer, Volume 4

1910 - 746 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 ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear...
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Milton & His Poetry

William Henry Hudson - 1912 - 198 pages
...the fiat 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,1 and sometimes impaired. He, that has light within his own clear...
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