I trust hereby to make it manifest with what small willingness 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... Literary Leaves - Page 203by David Lester Richardson - 1840Full view - About this book
| William Ellery Channing - 1848 - 430 pages
...manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...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 for... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 566 pages
...manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...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... | |
| Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 300 pages
...manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...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... | |
| 1849 - 602 pages
...manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuits of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...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... | |
| William Ellery Channing - 1849 - 432 pages
...manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...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 for... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...manifest with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, his play from the theatres-, but ' Venice Preserved'...effective tragedies. The stern plotting character of ; from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...diserimination between its elevating and its debasing influence upon the public morals. Milton himself had leu " a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful...in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes." Let us retrace our steps, and glance a little at the prelude to this period. In 1633 was published... | |
| 1856 - 666 pages
...following noble words. He regrets his being called "to interrupt the pursuits of his hopes, and to leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of truth in... | |
| William Ware - 1850 - 424 pages
...escape from this rigid system of Divinity and return to the place of his education, and again " behold the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." It should be remembered that from the very foundation of Harvard University there had always prevailed... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 428 pages
...less hopes than these, and leave a ealm and pleasing solitariness, fed with eheerful and eonfident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright eountenanee of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies, to eome into the dim refleetion... | |
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