 | American literature - 1849 - 600 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...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... | |
 | Theology - 1844 - 472 pages
...been pem)rmed, the few scholars among the monks hurried back to their folios, " to behold the pleasant countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies." We may smile as we remember their childish prejudices, and often unprofitable labors. But they were... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Theology - 1845 - 436 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...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 - 1845 - 572 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...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... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1827 - 516 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 studies.***But were it the meanest underservice, if God, by his secretary conscience, enjoin it, it... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1845 - 258 pages
...and excitement of philosophic thought. He forsook the feverish pursuit of enjoyment, to contemplate " the bright countenance of Truth, in the quiet and still air of delightful studies."* But this devotion to study was no egotistical seclusion. It Jid not prevent his taking an active share... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...fed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in a troubled eea of noises and hoarse disputes ; v v to come into the dim reflection of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to... | |
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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... 
