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" I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and... "
So Much of the Diary of Lady Willoughby, as Relates to Her Domestic History ... - Page 203
by Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 242 pages
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...pleasing solitariness, fed with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." If we now pause to take a retrospect of our best prose writers from 1580 to the restoration in 1660,...
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...pleasing solitariness, fed with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." If we now pause to take a retrospect of our best prose writers from 1580 to the restoration in 1660,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 7

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 624 pages
...he was m Reasons of C. Govern. PW vol.i. 118. forced " to interrupt the pursuit of his hopes; and to leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 436 pages
...fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled fea of noifes and hoarfe difputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and ftill air of delightful ftudies, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities fold by the...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of kollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to club quotations with men -whose learning...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which ...

John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 670 pages
...fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to imbark in a troubled fea of noife and hoarfe difputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of Truth, in the quiet and Hill air of delightfull ftudies." In 1 642 he clofed the controverfy with an Apology for SmeQymnuus,...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...pleasing solitariness, fed with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse dis.putes, put from beholding the bright...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Mr. Warton, who has cited the last sentence of this very interesting passage, as a proof that Milton,...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - 1810 - 690 pages
...fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." i We see him however, under the oppression of all this cheerless and foreign matter, indulging in the...
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