 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 her...  The Poems of John Milton: With Notes - Page 95by John Milton, Thomas Keightley - 1859Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 482 pages
...followed. Malone. Milton, in his Comus, might here have been indebted to Shakspeare : "Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her own radiant...though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." Steevens. s Come, civil night,] Civil is grave, decently solemn. Johnson. See As you Like it. Vol.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 466 pages
...followed. Malone. Milton, in his Comus, might here have heen indehted to Shakspeare : " Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her own radiant...though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." Steevens. s Come, civil night. ' Civil is grave, decently solemn. Johnson. See Asyou Like it. Vol.... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light,...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He, that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...CouM stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light,...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He, that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the... | |
 | 1810 - 430 pages
...Verses, from the Comus of Milton : Musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert Cell; And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...wings, That in the various Bustle of Resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Proceeding through a continuation of the same Shrubbery, (which... | |
 | 1810 - 202 pages
...Verses, from the Cum us of Milton : Musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert Cell; And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...wings, That in the various Bustle of Resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Proceeding through a continuation of the same Shrubbery, (which... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...Could stir the constant mood of her cal in thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue couM see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light,...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, ibe plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings,... | |
 | British drama - 1811 - 624 pages
...Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light,...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all so ruffled, and sometimes inipair'd. He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' tli'... | |
 | English drama - 1811 - 620 pages
...stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could sec to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light,...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all so ruffled, and sometimes impairM. He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th* centre... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 408 pages
...dexterity in " contending with a great original." You remember these lines of Milton in his Comus, ยป Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude,...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. On which Dr. Warburton has the following; O note. " Mr. Pope has... | |
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