 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
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...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 the quiet and still air of delightful studies." And, again : " For surely to every good and peaceable man, it must, in nature, needs be a hateful thing... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 pages
...interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes ; from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 544 pages
...fed with cherful and confident thoughts, to imbark in a troubl'd fea of noifes and hoars difputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and ftill air of delightfull ftudies to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities fold by the feeming... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...adds, ' With what small willingness I endure o to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, from beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,' &c.... | |
 | 1852 - 634 pages
...years, he would be content to go on trust with his readers for the payment of his debt, and, " leaving a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes," doing battle against Episcopacy in the face of the... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 pages
...another observer when he warned men from interrupting the pursuit of solid hopes, and from leaving a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark on a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes. Speusippus placed statues of the Graces in the school... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...hopes than these, and leave a calm andpleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thought, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes...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 Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1853 - 610 pages
...evident with what small willingness I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, an'd leave a calm and pleasing solitariness, fed with...embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, but from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quit t and still air of delightful studies."... | |
 | 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... | |
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