 | James Silk Buckingham - 1825 - 648 pages
...desire to have some time to itself, undisturbed by the calls of business, or even of friendship : And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, Contemplation, 3 Helyot, Hi«.t. des Ordres Monastiquen, ti She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wing», That... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 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,...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i'th'... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1871 - 614 pages
...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.) - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 226 pages
...active life. He frequently contrasts quiet contemplation with the bustle of activity : And Wisdoms self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude Where with...her 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... | |
 | Kathleen Wall - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 238 pages
...what vertue would By her own radiant light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat Sea sunk. And Wisdoms self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where with...her 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 - English literature - 1989 - 370 pages
...soul's pastime here is referred to the echoes it collects from wisdom's activities in Comus: Wisdoms self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where with...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... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 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,...feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, in the various husde of resort, Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired. 380 He that has light within his own... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 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,...her wings That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. (373-80) The younger brother concedes the security of II Penseroso... | |
 | Kristin Pruitt McColgan, Charles W. Durham - Great Britain - 1997 - 304 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,...her 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... | |
 | Mrs. Griffith (Elizabeth) - Fiction - 1997 - 306 pages
...what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdoms self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with...Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings .... [n. 366-78] ("A Mask Presented at Ludlow-Castle, 1634," in Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in Four Books.... | |
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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... 
