 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1851 - 352 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. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' centre* and enjoy bright day... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 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 to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast\ May sit i' the centre,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 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. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day... | |
 | Class-book - Poetry - 1852 - 152 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. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...to have coveted a gayer life, and to have regretted the poverty which condemned him to retirement: It is a foolish thing that one can't only not live...but where and with whom one pleases, without money. Swift somewhere says that money is liberty ; and I fear money is friendship too, and society, and almost... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1854 - 632 pages
...to have coveted a gayer life, and to have regretted the poverty which condemned him to retirement. ' It is a foolish thing that one can't only not live...but where and with whom one pleases, without money. Swift somewhere says that money is liberty ; and I fear money is friendship too, and society, and almost... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Acting - 1854 - 358 pages
...benefits, as well as of luxuries ; where, "with her best nurse, Contemplation," the mind " Can plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the...Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired." It was our first duty to point out Mr. Kean's excellences to the public, and we did so with no sparing... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 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. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 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." " Da sapient! occasionem," says the unerring text, "et addetur illi sapientia." Such was... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...retired solitude; Where, with her best nurse — contemplation — She plumes her feathers, and lets go her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too muffled, and sometimes impaired. Milton. All is best, though we oft doubt What the unsearchable dispose... | |
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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... 
