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" 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 hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of... "
The Life of John Milton - Page 196
by Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pages
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Essays Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 378 pages
...with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth, 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 ..., Volume 3

Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth, 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 - 602 pages
...only of his left m hand;" and we hear him complaining that he was m Reasons of C. Govern. PW vol.i. 118. forced " to interrupt the pursuit of his hopes;...again in a still time when there shall be no chiding." ° Milton was a student and a poet by the strong and almost irresistible impulse of his nature: he...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with chearful and confident thoughts, to einbark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to,...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of kollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...
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The life of Milton, and Conjectures on the Origin of Paradise Lost, by ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 472 pages
...with chearful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse dis.putes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth, 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 British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 3

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 524 pages
...and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pages
...and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." So that of Spenser: " The noble heart that harbours virtuous thought, And is with child of glorious...
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and if hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." So that of Spenser : " The noble heart that harbours virtuous thought, And is with child of glorious...
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