Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. Comus: A Mask - Seite 29von John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 66 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 340 Seiten
...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 stir the constant mood of her calm thoughU, And put them into misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 Seiten
...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...to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's sell' Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude... | |
| James Ferguson - 1819 - 348 Seiten
...ever, (Not being in danger, as I trust she is not) As that the single want of light and noise Con lei stir the constant mood of her calm thoughts, And put...misbecoming plight. Virtue could see to do what Virtue would Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Oft seeks... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 Seiten
...Virtue's book, And the sweet peace that goodness bosoms ever. As that the single want of light and noise om their spheres be hurl'd, Being on being wreck'd, and world on world ; though Sun and Moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 472 Seiten
...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 own radiant light, though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." Steeven's. s Come, civil night,] Civil is grave,... | |
| John Jebb - 1820 - 502 Seiten
...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 radiant light, though Sun and Moon Were in the flat sea sunk. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit... | |
| John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 538 Seiten
...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 own radiant light, though sun and moon " Were in the flat sea sunk." STEEVENS. 9Come, CIVIL night,] Ci vil is grave, decently... | |
| 1822 - 496 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 220 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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