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 196by Charles Symmons - 1810 - 646 pagesFull view - About this book
| American Unitarian Association - 1839 - 1020 pages
...interest in religion, let us hare profounder thought, prolonged meditation, gazing, a* Milton says, on the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful study. REV. EDMUND B. WILT.SON, of Grafton, in rising to second the resolution, said : — He had been... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 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." Such a writer as Milton might well essay the height of some great argument, " Things unattempted yet... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 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." Such a writer as Milton might well essay the height of some great argument, " Things unattempted yet... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 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." Such a writer as Milton might well essay the height of some great argument, " Tilings unattempted yet... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1840 - 844 pages
...escape from this rigid system of Divinity and return to the place of his education, and again "behold the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." It should be remembered that from the very foundation of Harvard University there had always prevailed... | |
| Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
...escape from this rigid system of Divinity and return to the place of his education, and again " behold the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." It should be remembered that from the very foundation of Harvard University there had always prevailed... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pages
...and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in his soul did huddled notions try, And bom a shapeless...false, implacable in hate ; Resolv'd to ruin or to rul to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
| 1849 - 600 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 hollow antiquities, sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain... | |
| 1844 - 472 pages
...been pem)rmed, the few scholars among the monks hurried back to their folios, " to behold the pleasant countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." We may smile as we remember their childish prejudices, and often unprofitable labors. But they were delving... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 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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