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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... "
Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical, Illustrative of the Tatler ... - Page 36
by Nathan Drake - 1805 - 508 pages
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...fed with 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." So that of Spenser: " The noble heart that harbours virtuous thought, And is with child of glorious...
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The Anti-critic for Aug. 1821 and March 1822

sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1822 - 180 pages
...enjoyed. It will not be as it was with the noble poet just mentioned. n I trust hereby », says he, <i to make it manifest, with what small willingness I..., in the quiet and still air of delightful studies •. VI. YOUNG'S UNIVERSAL PASSION. YOUNG has endeavoured to prove , that Love of Famt is the Universal...
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The Life of John Milton

Charles Symmons - Authors, English - 1822 - 526 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 studies26." We see him, however, under the oppression of all this cheerless and foreign matter, indulging...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...fed with 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, to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to...
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The Quarterly Christian Spectator, Volume 8

Theology - 1826 - 684 pages
...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 Truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.!7' Yet, notwithstanding all the interest with which we behold him closing the evening of his...
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The Christian Spectator, Volume 8

Theology - 1826 - 688 pages
...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 Truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.!'1 Yet, notwithstanding all the interest with which we behold him closing the evening of his...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 484 pages
...pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to imbark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." In 1642 he closed the preceding controversy with an Apology for Smectymnuus, in answer to the Confutation...
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Some Account of the Life and Writings of John Milton: Derived ..., Volume 6

Henry John Todd - Poets, English - 1826 - 460 pages
...pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to imbark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." In 1642 he closed the preceding controversy with an Apology for Smectymnuus, in answer to the Confutation...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 3

Unitarianism - 1826 - 548 pages
...pleasing solitariness, fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright...of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studics.***But were it the meanest undcrservice, if God by his secretary conscience enjoin it, it were...
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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...' calm and pleasing solitariness,' in which he so much delighted, was destined to be broken, and, ' put from beholding the bright countenance of truth...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,' the poet and the scholar was ere long to ' embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes.'...
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