 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - Страниц: 642
...night is Cupid's day.' Milton, in his Comus, might have been indebted to Shakspeare : — ' Virtue can see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.' 5 Civil is grave, solemn. 6 These are terms of falconry. An unmanned hawk is one that is not brought... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - Страниц: 554
...night is Cupid's day.' Milton, in his Comus, might have been indebted to Shakspeare : — ' Virtue can see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.' 5 Civil is grave, solemn. Come, gentle night; come, loving, black- brow'd night7, Give me my Romeo... | |
 | Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1827 - Страниц: 342
...solitude and silence the forms which imagination bodies forth? What wisdom is so noble as that " Which seeks to sweet retired Solitude ; Where, with her...wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." The most touching passages to be found in books, are those... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - Страниц: 408
...personification is from Milton's Comus. The poet personifies Virtue, Wisdom, and Contemplation : " Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light,...resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd." Cowper has personified Winter, as the " King of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, homeborn happiness"... | |
 | 1829 - Страниц: 804
...Could stir the consult mood ol her calm thoughts, And pat them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light,...She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, Th.u in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd : He that has light... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1829 - Страниц: 398
...woodland banks, where Milton says — Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; vOL. I. I Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. Camus. The lesser Periwinkle, Vinca Minor, is the most proper for the flower borders, and... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1830 - Страниц: 420
...all that's really good and great : — " For Wisdom's self " Oft seeks to such retired solitudes, " Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, " She plumes..." That in the various bustle of resort, " Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.* * In August and September last, I had the pleasure of reviving,... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - Страниц: 460
...time, to be his hallowed and chosen retirement, till he entered on the active duties of the ministry. " Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet, retired solitude...She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings." This step, considered in all its aspects, may justly be regarded as one of the most important in Mr.... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1830 - Страниц: 530
...time to be his hallowed and chosen retirement, till he entered on the active duties of the ministry. ' Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude...She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings." This step, considered in all its aspects, may justly be regarded as one of the most important .in Mr.... | |
 | Asa Cummings - 1839 - Страниц: 510
...time, to be his hallowed and chosen retirement, till he ente-ed on the active duties of the ministry. " Wisdom's self " Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude...She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings." This step, considered in all its aspects, may justly be regarded as one of the most important in Mr.... | |
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Virtue could see 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 ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow... 
