 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
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 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 to... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1845 - 436 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 But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad for... | |
 | 1827 - 516 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.***But were it the meanest underservice, if God, by his secretary conscience, enjoin it, it... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1845 - 258 pages
...and excitement of philosophic thought. He forsook the feverish pursuit of enjoyment, to contemplate " the bright countenance of Truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies."* But this devotion to study was no egotistical seclusion. It Jid not prevent his taking an active share... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 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 reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled eea l and Lincoln to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 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 But were it the meanest underservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were sad for... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 566 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 to... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...on the subject in the following noble words. He regrets his being called "to interrupt the pursuits of his hopes, and to leave a calm and pleasing solitariness,...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." And he adds : " For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must, in nature, needs be a hateful... | |
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