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Conferencia: Les annales. Journal de l'Université des annales - Page 450
1916
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The British Essayists;: Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 348 pages
...her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude : Where, with her best nurse,...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd : He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit o' th' centre, and enjoy bright day...
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Comus: A Mask

John Milton - 1808 - 96 pages
...own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat s?a sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse,...wings, That in the various bustle of resort . . . Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes imp&ir'd. 330 He, that has light within his own clear breast. May sit...
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The British Essayists;: Tatler

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 348 pages
...in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude : Where, with her beet nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd : He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit o' th' centre, and enjoy bright day...
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A New Pocket Companion for Oxford, Or Guide Through the University: With an ...

1810 - 430 pages
...: Musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert Cell; And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where with her best nurse,...Bustle of Resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Proceeding through a continuation of the same Shrubbery, (which appears to grow on rocky...
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A pocket companion for Oxford. [Entitled] A new pocket companion ..., Volume 3

1810 - 202 pages
...: Musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert Cell; And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where with her best nurse,...Bustle of Resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Proceeding through a continuation of the same Shrubbery, (which appears to grow on rocky...
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Cowper's Milton [the poetical works, with life, notes and tr. by W. Cowper ...

John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse,...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He, that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the...
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Paradise regained. An account of Cowper's writings, relating to Milton. A ...

William Hayley - 1810 - 418 pages
...her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse,...her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He, that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; 376 Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, ibe plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bnstle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. Fie that has light within his own clear...
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The works of Richard Hurd, Volume 2

Richard Hurd (bp. of Worcester.) - 1811 - 374 pages
...•**-— You remember these lines of Milton in his CODIUS, . , • . > ." ".'. Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude, Where, with her best nurse,...bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. . i On which Dr. Warburton has the following note. " Mr. Pope has imitated this thought and...
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The Modern British Drama: In Five Volumes, Volume 2

1811 - 620 pages
...her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk ; and Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse,...wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all so ruffled, and sometimes impairM. He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th* centre...
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