 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
 | Richard Hurd - 1811 - 390 страници
...with a great original." v ; • . r You remember these lines of Milton in his Comus, , . . rvt • Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and Jets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort • • '- T. , " **•.•' • i , Were... | |
 | John Britton - 1813 - 802 страници
...affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitnde, Whert Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too rnffled, and sometimes impaired. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 страници
...Could stir the constant mood of her calm thought*, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light,...Moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - 1813 - 822 страници
...affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair' (i. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 480 страници
...followed. MALONE. Milton, in his Comus, might here have been indebted to Shakspeare: " Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her own radiant...though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." STEEVENS. * Come, civil night,'] Civil is grave, decently solemn. JOHNSON. See As you like it, Vol.... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 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 Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask pr drama, and further explained... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 354 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 (374-.) Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask or drama, and furher... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 622 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 .) Having now explained that the ague and fever is the subject of this mask or drama, and furher explained... | |
 | 1755 - 262 страници
...when he wrote those beautiful lines ; " And wisdom's self " Oft seeks to such retired solitudes, " Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, " She plumes...feathers, and lets grow her wings, " That, in the various bastle of resort, »' Were ail-to ruffled and sometimes impair'd." This solitary situation of a parish... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1816 - 414 страници
...Could stir the constant tnood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light,...with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feaihtrs, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all 100 ruffled, and sometimes... | |
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