 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 oldal
...prepare himself for still further exertions, when his mind was enabled " To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings. That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled and sometimes impair'd." This short but tranquil portion of his life he * Vide vol. iii. p.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 694 oldal
...prepare himself for still further exertions, when his mind was enabled " To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled and sometimes impair'd." This short but tranquil portion of his life he * Vide vol. iii. p.... | |
 | 1825 - 848 oldal
...occasion ?' asked Tremaine. * ' Why, wisdom's self, you know, ' Oft seeks a sweet retired solitude. Where, with her best nurse contemplation. She plumes...That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair' d.' " ' But seriously, it was to recover the bent of my mind — I may... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 oldal
...though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, us walks and shades ; See there the olive grove of...Attie bird Trills her thiek-warbled notes the summe ruffled, and sometimes Impair'd. He that has light within his own elear breast May sit i' th' eentre,... | |
 | John Milton - 2000 - 412 oldal
...though Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea sunk. And Wisdoms self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes...feathers, and lets grow her wings That in the various bussle of resort Were all to ruffl'd, and somtimes impairM. 380 He that has light within his own cleer... | |
 | 1909 - 502 oldal
...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, She plumes...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,... | |
 | 1871 - 614 oldal
...lines from Milton's Cornus, ail-to is evidently used as an adverb : — •• Where with her beat nurse. Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and...grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Wore ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired." On this passage Warton has the following note : — "... | |
 | William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 oldal
...quiet contemplation with the bustle of activity : And Wisdoms self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes...wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all to ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. (Mask 374-79) He decided to retire to his father's home for six... | |
 | Kathleen Wall - 1988 - 238 oldal
...though Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea sunk. And Wisdoms self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes...wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all to ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own cleer brest May sit i'th center,... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 oldal
...echoes it collects from wisdom's activities in Comus: Wisdoms self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes...feathers, and lets grow her wings That in the various bussle of resort Were all to ruffl'd, and sometimes impair'd. (11. 375-80) The soul in Marvell's poem... | |
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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... 
