 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...with cheerful and confident thought, 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, cold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...another task ;" and that in this he had but the " use, as it were, of his left hand." He panted for beholding the " bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies," and had yet long enough to pant. Hitherto, Milton had remained alone — and his life, on the whole,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...another task ;" and that in this he had but the " use, as it were, of his left hand." He panted for beholding the " bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful stndies," and had yet long enough to pant. Hitherto, Milton had remained alone — and his life, on... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 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... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 518 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises aud hoarse disputes ; from beholding the bright countenance...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 574 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." t Cleaveland rushes into the fray with an alacrity that suits his impetuous nature : — " Ring the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1856 - 768 pages
...in Buckinghamshire, devoting himself to the most thorough and comprehensive course of reading — " beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies," and embodying his observations of nature and his pure and beautiful imaginings into the immortal verse... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...I might perhaps leave something so written to aftertimes, as they should not willingly let it die. Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Apology for Smectymnuss. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1857 - 532 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... | |
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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... 
