 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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. Milton's Comus, Dear solitary groves, where peace does dwell ! Sweet harbours of pure love... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 ruflled, and sometimes impair^. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th1 centre,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...to solitary sweet retire. 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 impair'd. sso Examynacyon of A. Askew, p. 24. " Hath not he moche nede of... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1825 - 638 pages
...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 be found in a monastery, though warm and youthful fancies might... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets nt, where the Attie bird Trills her thiek-warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery Impair'd. He that has light within his own elear breast May sit i' th' eentre, and enjoy bright day... | |
 | England - 1825 - 848 pages
...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.' " ' But seriously, it was to recover the bent of my mind — I may even say of my virtue... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1825 - 366 pages
...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 sometime impair'd." "But seriously, it was to recover the bent of my mind — I may even say of my... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 648 pages
...Contemplation, 3 Helyot, Hi«.t. des Ordres Monastiquen, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wing», That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. Bat this kind of seclusion is not to be found in a monastery, though warm and youthful fancies might... | |
 | Scotland - 1825 - 810 pages
...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 ruined, and sometimes impair'd.' " ' But seriously, it was to recover the bent of my mind — I may... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 374 pages
...companion) bring back his mind to contemplative tranquillity. " In sweet retired solitude She plumed her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the...resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired." WHITE'S CLUB HOUSE. When Brookes's became the head-quarters of the Foxites, their opponents formed... | |
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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... 
