 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820
...quarto has been followed. Malone. Milton, in his Camus, might here have been indebted to Shakspeare : " Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her...though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." Steeven's. s Come, civil night,] Civil is grave, decently solemn, Johnson, See As you Like it. Vol.... | |
 | John Jebb - 1820 - Liczba stron: 471
...profane, does not afford a better illustration of this passage, than the strains of our great poet : Virtue could see to do what virtue would, By her own...light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat sea sunk. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day : But he... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - Liczba stron: 468
...virtue's book. And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not,) Could...Contemplation, She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings. That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821
...has been followed. MALONE. Milton, in his Comus, might here have been indebted to Shakspeare : , " Virtue could see to do what virtue would, " By her...though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." STEEVENS. 9Come, CIVIL night,] Ci vil is grave, decently solemn. JOHNSON. So, in our poet's Lover's... | |
 | 1822
...virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) Could...Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude : y Milton's ' Comus' was originally set by Henry Lawes, and first published by him in 1637, with a... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - Liczba stron: 377
...the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being iu danger, as I trust she is not), Could stir the constant...Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823
...virtue's book, (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) As that the single want of light and noise Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts....into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtne would Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self By her own radiant light, though sun and... | |
 | British anthology - 1824
...Virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) Could...Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - Liczba stron: 822
...Virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever, As that the single want of light and noise ew Such tets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd.... | |
 | John Milton - 1824
...the pathos and con" cern for his sister that it ex(Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) 370 Could stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts,...moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self 375 Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, presses. For every parenthesis should contain matter of weight;... | |
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Virtue could see to do what virtue would By 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, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow... 
