...in Buckinghamshire, devoting himself to the most thorough and comprehensive course of reading — " beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies," and embodying his observations of nature and his pure and beautiful imaginings into the immortal verse...

...I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Apology for Smectymnuss. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable...

...hand"; that poetry was your real avocation and that it was with reluctance that you had decided to "leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes." Obviously they are not ever works of detached philosophical speculation, or of disinterested learning,...

...upbraided to us, that "the way of the wicked is as darkness, they stumble at they know not what". 40 a. 5. Put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities. 44 b. 6. How have they disfigured and defaced...

...for example, retains its coherence : I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than...these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness. . .to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes. The reason of church government 1641...

...Director, Allowances Staff Education has for its object the formation of character. —Herbert Spencer Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. —John Milton Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the...

...servitude and forswearing." Only the urgency of the prophetic moment compels Milton himself to abandon "a calm and pleasing solitariness fed with cheerful...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Sharp but saving words: in like spirit he observes that, "although divine inspiration must certainly...

...already vulgar temporal controversy that was further tainted by the conditions of the marketplace. He was "put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...

...solitarynes fed with cherful and confident thoughts, to imbark in a troubl'd sea of noises and hoars disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightfull studies to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk,...

...reader who understood his present exciting plans for poetry could realize 'with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than...Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk' (241). To make matters...