 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...  The Oriental Herald - الصفحة 2461825عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Cynosure - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 272
...if he regards Truth, let him expect martyrdom on both sides, and then he may go on fearless. DE FOE. 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... | |
 | J. Slade - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...direction, have attracted me ofttimes in the day, and called forth some of my profoundest meditations. " Wisdom's self " Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude; " Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, " She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings." But it was at eve that I most admired the spot,... | |
 | Joseph Beaumont, Mary Tatham - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...country, where, unseen by human eye, she held sweet communion with her " Father who seeth in secret." " 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... | |
 | J. Slade - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...direction, have attracted me ofttimes in the day, and called forth some of my profoundest meditations. " Wisdom's self " Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; " Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, " She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings." But it was at eve that I most admired the spot,... | |
 | John McVickar - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...may plead Milton's authority for the latter part of his sentiment, who very elegantly tells us that Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wiugs, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too... | |
 | William Gresley - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...spiritual and temporal, I remain your sincere friend, GH CHAPTER IX. THE CHURCHMAN IN HIS CLOSET. " 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... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 836
...works ; I mime on the works of thy hands." Milton also has "musing meditation: " and says that wisdom " 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...would By her own radiant light, though sun and 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 feathers, and lets grow her wings, 361 For grant] This line obscures the thought, and... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...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 wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...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 wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all-to... | |
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