 Virtue could see to do what Virtue would 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 best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her...  The Poems of John Milton: With Notes - Страница 95по John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | British essayists - 1802 - 244 страници
...the ease and indolent enjoy menis connected with rural retirement. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks the sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse...plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in tlie bustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. As these dispositions... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1803 - 572 страници
...becomirg 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...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 - 432 страници
...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: " While... | |
 | Henry Kett - 1805 - 422 страници
...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,"... | |
 | 1807 - 592 страници
...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,...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," says... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 страници
...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...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 i' th'... | |
 | Isaac Weld - 1807 - 286 страници
...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 - 356 страници
...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 348 страници
...her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would -v By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 страници
...Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into" misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue 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 her best nurse, Contemplation,... | |
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