 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 páginas
...WENDELL HOLMES, SR., (1809-1894) US writer, physician. The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, ch. 6 (1858). Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. JOHN MILTON, (1608-1674) British poet. The Reason of Church Government, introduction to bk. 2 (1642).... | |
 | John Y Cole, Henry Hope Reed - 1997 - 330 páginas
...stars. — Edward Young There is but one temple in the Universe and that is the Body of Man. — Novalis Beholding the bright countenance of Truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. — Milton The true university of these days is a collection of books. — Carlyle The history of the... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. 7654 The Reason of Church Government Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. 7655 Samson Agonistes Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with... | |
 | Kristen Poole - 2006 - 292 páginas
...solitarynes fed with cherful and confident thoughts, to imbark in a troubl'd sea of noises and hoars disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightfull studies to come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk,... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 2001 - 676 páginas
...instinct than design, as though sauntering into a domain of unexplored tranquillity, wherein / beheld the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies,3 and began, for gladness, to extend its bounds. This ancient manner, with its undulations... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 páginas
...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...antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to club0 quotations with men whose learning and belief lies in marginal stuffings, who, when they... | |
 | Frank Lentricchia, Andrew DuBois - 2003 - 412 páginas
...interrupt the pursuit of no lesse hopes than these ... to imbark in a troubl'd sea of noises and hoars disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance...in the quiet and still air of delightful studies" (821822). In Lycidas, the still and quiet air of studies is punctuated by the "Oaten Flute" and by... | |
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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... 
