 | 1822 - 496 pages
...Comus, vol. ii. p. 62. 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 breast, May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1822 - 612 pages
...on indifferent matters, where Contemplation " May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That m the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired," that I absent myself from the town for awhile, without feeling at a loss the moment I am left by myself.... | |
 | 1832 - 586 pages
...occasionally seek seclusion from the world, where contemplation " Plumes her feathers, and lets go her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled." This contemplation leads the poet to the mossy cell, to the thicket or the lea, to burns and bracken... | |
 | 1832 - 488 pages
...occasionally seek seclusion from the world, where contemplation " Flames her feathers, and lets go her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too raffled." This contemplation leads the poet to the mossy cell, to the thicket or the lea, to burns... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...which enabled him to prepare himself for still further exertions, when his mind was enabled " To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That, in the...bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled and sometimes impair'd." This short but tranquil portion of his life he * Vide vol. iii. p. 321. has himself feelingly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...because I want a little breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters, where Contemplation " May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd/' that I absent myself from the town for awhile, without feeling at a loss the moment I am... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...which enabled him to prepare himself for still further exertions, when his mind was enabled " To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings. That, in the...bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled and sometimes impair'd." This short but tranquil portion of his life he * Vide vol. iii. p. 321. has himself feelingly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 pages
...because I want a little breathing-space to muse on indifferent matters, where Contemplation " May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd/' that I absent myself from the town for awhile, without feeling at a loss the moment I am... | |
 | Christianity - 1825 - 628 pages
...best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Helyot) HUt. 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 be found in a monastery, though worm and youthful fancies might... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers, and tets be blest : The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to c impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day... | |
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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 impaired. He that has light within... 
