 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1825 - 638 pages
...retired solitude, AVhere with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Hrlynt, Hist. des Ordres Monastiques, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. But this kind of seclusion is not to... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 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 too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Art - 1827 - 342 pages
...What wisdom is so noble as that " Which 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 impair'd." The most touching passages to be found... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Botany - 1829 - 398 pages
...says — Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; vOL. I. I 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 impaired. Camus. The lesser Periwinkle, Vinca... | |
 | Richard Warner - Authors - 1830 - 426 pages
...great: — " For Wisdom's self " Oft seeks to such retired solitudes, " 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-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. * * In August and September last,... | |
 | 1832 - 438 pages
...wayward passion ! " For 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, Might be too ruffled, and sometimes impaired.'' MILTON'S COMUS. Imploring that protective... | |
 | John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.) - 1833 - 446 pages
...elegantly tells us that ' Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Whore 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.' I should have preferred for my retreat, however, that season... | |
 | John Henry Hobart, William Berrian - Theology - 1833 - 444 pages
...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 wings. That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled.' I should have preferred for my retreat, however that season... | |
 | Plato - Philosophy - 1834 - 482 pages
...and unshackled mind. Wisdom's self Oft seeks to ewcct retired solitude ; Where, with her host nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustîe of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes ini[wlretl. He that has light within his own Hear... | |
 | Europe, Southern - 1835 - 292 pages
...hospitably received. 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 Where all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. Probably the imagination of the poet... | |
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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... 
