| John Milton - 1707 - 480 oldal
...ftir the conftant mood of her calm Thoughts, And put. them into mif-bccoming plight. Virtue could fee to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea funk. And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation... | |
| John Milton - 1725 - 372 oldal
...her calm Thoughts, And put them into mif-becouiing plight. Virtue could fee to do what Virtue wotdd By her own radiant light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea funk. And Wifdom's fclf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation,... | |
| Richard Hurd - 1757 - 90 oldal
...Milton in his Comus, Wifdom'sfelf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, • Where with her heft nurfe, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. On which Dr. Warburton has the following... | |
| Horace - 1766 - 288 oldal
...Milton in his Comus, Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude, Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. On which Dr. Warburton has the following... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 oldal
...powerful, that ridicule was become as unfafe as it was ineffectual *.' This *' Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, " She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, " That in the various buftle of refort, ** Were' all too rufH'd, atid fometimes impair'd.'f * That our author laboured with... | |
| Horace - 1776 - 282 oldal
...Milton in his Comus : Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fvveet retired Solitude ; Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her ' wings, . , That, in the various buftle of refort, ., _. Were all too ruffled, and. fometimes impair'd. On which Bp. Warburton has the... | |
| John Bell - 1777 - 374 oldal
...flat fea funk : and wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude ; Where, with her belt nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear... | |
| 1777 - 380 oldal
...wifdom's felt ' Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude ; ' Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, 4 She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, ' That in the various buftle of refoft ' Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. 4 He that has light within his own... | |
| 1713 - 484 oldal
...cell, • and wifdom's felf Oft fceks to fweet retired. folitude, : • . Where with her bed nurie, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, -, . That in the various buftle of re'fort, ;.'- . -Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. ••/.'.. • ,-,. .MILTON.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 332 oldal
...fiat fea funk. And wifdom's felf 375 Oft fecks to fweet retir'd fulitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
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