| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." If we now pause to take a retrospect of our best prose writers from 1580 to the restoration in 1660,... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." If we now pause to take a retrospect of our best prose writers from 1580 to the restoration in 1660,... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 602 pages
...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."" We see him, however, under the oppression of all this cheerless and foreign matter, indulging in the... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...confident thoughts, to einbark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes — from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still...stuffings; who when they have, like good sumpters, laid you down their horse-load of citations and fathers at your door, with a rhapsody of who and who were... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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...stuffings; who when they have, like good sumpters, laid you down their horse-load of citations and fathers at your door, with a rhapsody of who and who were... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...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...marginal stuffings; who when they have, like good eumpters, laid you down their horse-load of citations and fathers at your door, with a rhapsody of... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still...delightful studies, to come into the dim reflection of kollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to club quotations with men -whose learning... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled sea of noise and hoarse dis.putes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." Mr. Warton, who has cited the last sentence of this very interesting passage, as a proof that Milton,... | |
| Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...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." ' We see him however, under the oppression of all this cheerless and foreign matter, indulging in the... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...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 reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to club quotations with... | |
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