 | 1833 - 336 pages
...MARY E. HAVEN July 2, 1914 THE LIBRARY X OF THI OLD ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS. VOL. VIII. JEREMY TAYLOR. " Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. " — MiLTort. B OSTON: HILLIARD, GRAY, AND COMPANY. CAMBRIDGE: BROWN, SHATTUCK, AND CO. M DCCC XXXIII.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1833 - 390 pages
... ii-vfv V{f$ ? ?" , LIBRARY OF THE f ' OLD ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS. VOL. VIII. JEREMY TAYLOR. " Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." — Mi LTOH. BOSTON: BILLIARD, GRAY, AND COMPANY. CAMBRIDGE: BROWN, SHATTUCK, AND CO. M DCCC XXXIII.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 680 pages
...seas of dispute ;" and asks what but a sense of duty could have enabled him thus to have been "put off from beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." This truth was truth universal ; this air, the same that haunted the room of Plato, and came breathing... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 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 - 1835 - 484 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholdingthe ilton to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1836 - 676 pages
...their musing, to propose to themselves whatever is of highest hope and hardest attempting ;" whether in "beholding the bright countenance of truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies," or as " poets soaring high in the region of their fancies, with their garlands and singing robes about... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1836 - 374 pages
...man," — who can reason on the rights, and defend the liberties of his race, and, retiring to " behold the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies," woo others with the " soft and solemn-breathing sound " which issued from his retreat, to come and... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1837 - 590 pages
...semblance, was to leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. " What ought to be done ?" asks Plato, after showing that the studies of young men are pursued with... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1838 - 400 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 with this sublime declaration of ambitious aspirations, are mingled a fierceness of hatred, and... | |
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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... 
