 | 696 pages
...as the holy hermite. As says the Elder Brother hi " Comes :" — " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to street retired solitude ; Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers and lets grow her winjs That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired." AH of us,... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1866 - 494 pages
...difference between one man and another,- and perhaps genius is chiefly a very high power of attention. " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet, retired solitude,...Contemplation, She plumes her feathers and lets grow hei' wings, That in the various hustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired." In... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1872 - 182 pages
...to be " faithful in the least,", as "also in much." V. SOLITARY MUSINGS. WISDOM'S self Oft seeks so sweet, 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, •*... | |
 | George Mogridge - 1872 - 186 pages
...to be " faithful in the least," as "also in much." V. SOLITARY MUSINGS. WISDOM'S self Oft seeks so sweet, 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. »... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1874 - 672 pages
...the greatest mirth, content, and recreation that could be ; and this he held to his dying day.' * ' Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude...best nurse, Contemplation. She plumes her feathers.' There is little doubt that had the writer of these well-known lines been able to tear himself from... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1874 - 836 pages
...topple." (Ptridu, iH. 8, 17.) % It is also employed by Milton, but evidently archaically : — " And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, 8he plumes her feathers and leta grow her wings That in the rarious battle of resort Were a!! i ruffled... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 758 pages
...to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, sao She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to*... | |
 | John Milton - 1875 - 824 pages
...would, By her own radiant light, though sun a:id mooi Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom's sell Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her...contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wing% That, in the various bustle of resort, Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has... | |
 | 1876 - 564 pages
...do what virtu i would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse, Contamplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, . That in the various bustle of resort... | |
 | 1898 - 488 pages
...Solitude, the nurse of sense: Where Contemplation prunes her ruffled wings. Comus 375. And Wisdom's seif Oft seeks to sweet, retired Solitude; Where with her best nurse Contemplation, She plumes her featliers and lets grow her wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all to-ruffled and some... | |
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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 lier wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, 380. Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light... 
