 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 490 pages
...To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. § 4. Virtue, II :>Jom, and ContenpJatif*. , • MlLTOV. VIRTUE could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though son and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's rlf Oft Seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 pages
...she is not) Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughU, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own...in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks in sweet retired solitude: Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 348 pages
...Virtue would Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude: Where, with her...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 : But... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 366 pages
...she is not) Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts. And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own...sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's sell' Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; -Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 394 pages
...it may, when Wisdom herself is forced often In sweet retired solitude To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impairM. t It is a foolish thing that without money one cannot either live as one pleases, or where... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 358 pages
...the ease and indolent enjoyments connected with rural retirement. 'Arid Wisdom's self Oft seeks the sweet retired solitude, Where, with her best nurse Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, ami lets grow her wings, That in the bustling hurry of resort, Were all too ruffled, ami sometimes... | |
 | John Jebb - Bible - 1820 - 502 pages
...profane, does not afford a better illustration of this passage, than the strains of our great poet : Virtue could see to do what virtue would, By her own...light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat sea sunk. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day : But he... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 472 pages
...quarto has been followed. Malone. Milton, in his Camus, might here have been indebted to Shakspeare : " Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her...though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." Steeven's. s Come, civil night,] Civil is grave, decently solemn, Johnson, See As you Like it. Vol.... | |
 | Thomas Gray - Poets, English - 1820 - 492 pages
...may, when Wisdom herself is forced often In twect retired solinuV v To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort. Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. It is a foolish thing that without money one cannot either live , as one pleases, or where and with... | |
 | Thomas Gray, William Mason - English literature - 1820 - 548 pages
...it may, when wisdom herself is forced often in sweet retired solitude To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. It is a foolish thing that without money one cannot either live as one pleases, or where and with whom... | |
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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 impair'd. He that has light within... 
