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" I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and... "
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art - Page 354
1849
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Compitum: Or, The Meeting of the Ways at the Catholic Church, Volume 6

Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 pages
...another observer when he warned men from interrupting the pursuit of solid hopes, and from leaving a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes. Speusippus placed statues of the Graces in the school...
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Lives of the illustrious. The Biographical magazine [ed. by J.P. Edwards].

Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...hopes than these, and leave a calm andpleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thought, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes...come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities, cold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to club quotations with men whose learning and belief lies...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 30

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1853 - 608 pages
...that I trust hereby to make it evident with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, an'd leave a calm and...embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, but from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quit t and still air of delightful studies."...
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Milton's Poetical Works

John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...another task ;" and that in this he had but the " use, as it were, of his left hand." He panted for beholding the " bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies," and had yet long enough to pant. Hitherto, Milton had remained alone — and his life, on the whole,...
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Milton's Poetical Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...another task ;" and that in this he had but the " use, as it were, of his left hand." He panted for beholding the " bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful stndies," and had yet long enough to pant. Hitherto, Milton had remained alone — and his life, on...
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Once Upon a Time, Volume 1

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1854 - 342 pages
...Knight in arms," to spare the house of Milton the polemic. It was Milton the poet who left unwillingly " a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful...in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes," that thus asked that the Muses' bower should be protected, as the house of Pindar and the city of Euripides...
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The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society ..., Volume 3

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1857 - 574 pages
...opponents of their party. Milton enters upon his task with a solemn expression of " small willingness to leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." t Cleaveland rushes into the fray with an alacrity that suits his impetuous nature : — " Ring the...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...that I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt tho pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and...confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises aud hoarse disputes ; from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 2

Henry Barnard - Education - 1856 - 768 pages
...in Buckinghamshire, devoting himself to the most thorough and comprehensive course of reading — " beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies," and embodying his observations of nature and his pure and beautiful imaginings into the immortal verse...
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Apology for Smectymnuss. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable...
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