 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...  Observations on Pope - Página 265por Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 348 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Hugh Bryan - 1760 - 220 páginas
...Letters to feveral Friends. By Richard Pearftill. Vol. 2. Price bound 33. 6d. , Wifdom's felf Oft feek* to fweet retired Solitude, * Where, with her beft...Nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her Feathers, and lets go her Wings ; That in the various Buftle of Mankind, We're all too ruffl'd, and fometimes impaired.... | |
 | Horace - 1766 - 288 páginas
...dexterity in contending with a great " original." You remember thefe lines of Milton in his Comus, Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired Solitude,...her wings, That in the various buftle of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd. On which Dr. Warburton has the following note. " Mr. Pope... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 páginas
...grown fo fhameful and To powerful, that ridicule was become as unfafe as it was ineffectual *.' This *' Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, " She plumes...wings, " That in the various buftle of refort, ** Were' all too rufH'd, atid fometimes impair'd.'f * That our author laboured with an honeft zeal to reform... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 páginas
...fo fhameful and fo powerful, that ridicule was become as unlafe as it was ineffectual *. This •* Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, " She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wing?, *' That in the various buftle of refort, *' Were all too ruffl'd, ahd fometlme's jmpair'd."... | |
 | John Bethune - 1770 - 458 páginas
...lie confiders as of moll conl'eN 3 quence . And Wifdom'i fclf, Oft fecks to Aveet retired folitude, "Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her «ing«, Which, in the various budle of refort, Were fometimes ruffled, and perhaps impaired. MILTON'S... | |
 | 1709 - 388 páginas
...though fun and moos Were in the flat fea funk. And Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude : Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes...feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftje of refort Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impair'd : He that has light within his own clear... | |
 | Horace - 1776 - 282 páginas
...great " original." You remember thefe lines of Milton in his Comus : Wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fvveet retired Solitude ; Where, with her beft nurfe, Contemplation,...wings, . , That, in the various buftle of refort, ., _. Were all too ruffled, and. fometimes impair'd. On which Bp. Warburton has the following note... | |
 | John Bell - 1777 - 374 páginas
...in the flat fea funk : and wifdom's felf Oft feeks to fweet retired folitude ; Where, with her belt nurfe, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and...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 breaft, May fit i'th... | |
 | 1777 - 380 páginas
...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 clear breaft,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 334 páginas
...fun and moon Were in the flat fea funk. And wifdom's felf 375 Oft fecks to fweet retir'd folitude, Where with her beft nurfe contemplation She plumes...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 clear breaft May fit... | |
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