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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... "
Q. Horatii Flacci Epistolae Ad Pisones, Et Augustum - Page 199
by Horace - 1776
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, ibe plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bnstle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Fie that has light within his own clear...
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The Modern British Drama: In Five Volumes, Volume 2

English drama - 1811 - 620 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 so ruffled, and sometimes impairM. He, that has light within his own clear...
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The works of Richard Hurd, Volume 2

Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 374 pages
.... , • . > ." ".'. 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. . i On which Dr. Warburton has the following...
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The modern British drama, Volume 2

British drama - 1811 - 624 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 so ruffled, and sometimes inipair'd. He, that has light within his own clear...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 5-6

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 622 pages
...tlat 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 too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 12, Issue 2

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 852 pages
...desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where 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. " The front of the grotto is partially...
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Discoveries in hieroglyphics, and other antiquities, in ..., Volumes 5-6

Robert Deverell - 1813 - 634 pages
...flat sea sunk ; and wisdom's self 37,5 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. 380 He that has light within his own...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 17, Part 2

John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 802 pages
...desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitnde, Whert 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 rnffled, and sometimes impaired. " The front of the grotto is partially...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1813 - 270 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 ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired. 380 He that has light within his own...
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Discoveries in Hieroglyphics and Other Antiquities, Volume 6

Robert Deverell - Hieroglyphics - 1813 - 354 pages
...wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse contemplation, v> r. She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own...
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