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
| Henry Allon - 1849 - 588 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... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. The Reason of Church Government. Book ii. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Ibid. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself... | |
| H. Joseph Zander, Timothy Edward Howard - 1869 - 228 pages
...care : all his wants are provided for. 3. His time is agreeably divided between play and study, — " Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." MILTON. 4. His constant cheerfulness enables him quickly to forget injuries. " Young men soon give... | |
| Heinrich Mutschmann - 1924 - 58 pages
...to us, that "the way of the wicked is as darkness, they stumble at they know not what". 40 a. 5. 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. 44 b. 6. How have they disfigured and defaced... | |
| Andrew V. Ettin - 1994 - 236 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." Sharp but saving words: in like spirit he observes that, "although divine inspiration must certainly... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 pages
...with cherful and confident thoughts, to imbark in a troubl'd sea of noises and hoars disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightfull studies to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk,... | |
| William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 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 reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk' (241). To make matters... | |
| John Y Cole, Henry Hope Reed - 1997 - 330 pages
...stars. — Edward Young There is but one temple in the Universe and that is the Body of Man. — Novalis Beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. — Milton The true university of these days is a collection of books. — Carlyle The history of the... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...WENDELL HOLMES, SR., (1809-1894) US writer, physician. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ch. 6 (1858). Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet. The Reason of Church Government, introduction to bk. 2 (1642).... | |
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