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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... "
Bell's Edition - Page 91
by John Bell - 1788
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The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical works

Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 380 pages
...these lines of Milton in his ..:. o, !•: i. .; wisdom^ seeks to s-weet retired Solitude, : : Wl/ere, With her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her That in the various bustle of resort , Were all too rufled, and sometimes jmpair,d. . tii!'. vi .'.iuL;...
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Elegant epistles: a copious selection of instructive, moral, and ...

Elegant epistles - 1812 - 320 pages
...it may, when Wisdom herself is forced often In sweet retired solitnde To plume her feathers, and let grow her wings. That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. It is a foolish thing that without money one cannot either live as one pleases, or where and with whom...
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the Principal ...

Henry Kett - Best books - 1812 - 500 pages
...to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation, She flumes her feathers, and tcu grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort, Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired." Paradise Lost. And Warton describes the advance of Evening : " While Evening veil'd in shadows...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 12, Issue 2

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 852 pages
...affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other creeping plants ; and, through an...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...would By her own radiant light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude; Where, with her...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i'...
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The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations ..., Volume 12, Issue 2

John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 822 pages
...affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair' (i. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other creeping plants ; and,...
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The Beauties of England and Wales: Or, Delineations ..., Volume 17, Part 2

John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 802 pages
...affects The pensive secresy of desert cell ; And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitnde, Whert Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes...That in the various bustle of resort Were all too rnffled, and sometimes impaired. " The front of the grotto is partially concealed by ivy and other...
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The Omnium-gatherum: or, Bath, Bristol, and Cheltenham literary repository ...

1755 - 262 pages
...when he wrote those beautiful lines ; " And wisdom's self " Oft seeks to such retired solitudes, " Where, with her best nurse, contemplation, " She plumes...feathers, and lets grow her wings, " That, in the various bastle of resort, »' Were ail-to ruffled and sometimes impair'd." This solitary situation of a parish...
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A New Pocket Companion for Oxford: Or, Guide Through the University ...

Nuneham Courtenay (England) - 1814 - 198 pages
...pensiv» secrecy of desert Cell; And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, a 3 AVhere with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her Feathers, and lets grow her wing*, That in the various Bustle of Resort Were all too ruffled, ami sometimes impaired'. Proceeding...
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Elements of General Knowledge: Introductory to Useful Books in the ..., Volume 1

Henry Kett - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1815 - 598 pages
...perlbnines Wifdom ; " Wifdom's felf Oft fecks to fweet retired folitude, Where with her beft nurfe Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various buftle of refort, Were all too ruffled, and fometimes impaired." ' And Pope, in his Windfor Foreft,...
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