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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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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 10

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...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

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...
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Outlines of Composition: Designed to Simplify and Develop the Principles of ...

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...
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Milton's Eyesight and the Chronology of His Works

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...
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Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and related ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies - 1977 - 664 pages
...Director, Allowances Staff Education has for its object the formation of character. —Herbert Spencer Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. —John Milton Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the...
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Speaking Silences: Stillness and Voice in Modern Thought and Jewish Tradition

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...
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John Milton: 1628-1731

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,...
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Milton: The life

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...
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Library Of Congress: Its Construction Architecture And Decoration

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...
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Famous Lines: A Columbia Dictionary of Familiar Quotations

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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