 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 380 He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a...under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon. f 2 BR. 'Tis most true, 385 That musing meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell,... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May...the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon. Sec. Br. 'Tis most true, That musing meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 328 pages
...rusbergo del esser puro." — DANTE. " He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i* th' centre and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a...under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon." — MILTON. TALE XV. ADVICE ; on, THE 'SQUIRE AND THE PRIEST. His hours fill'd up with riots, banquets,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 648 pages
...formerly did any thing but enlighten me. I exemplify, therefore, what is so sublimely said by Milton, ' He that has light within his own clear breast, May...under the mid-day sun : Himself is his own dungeon.' " Eccentric, and perhaps inconsistent, as this conduct was, it was impossible not to respect Lord Rochfort... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 4 385 Sec. Br. Tie most true, That musing Meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell,... | |
 | William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park - 1842 - 430 pages
...mansion—miserable on an archangel's throne. " He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a...under the mid-day sun, Himself is his own dungeon." The heaven of the Christian,—so speaks the tongue of inspiration, so speak the demands of our own... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...grow her wings, That, in the various bustle of resort, Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May...the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon. Sec. Br. "Tis most true, That musing meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell, Far from... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 838 pages
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 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...grow her wings, That, iii the various bustle of resort, Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May...under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon. • * • " How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose; But musical... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...that honour and honesty are but the same thing in the different degrees of 'persons.' He that hath light within his own clear breast, May sit i' the...under the mid-day sun: Himself is his own dungeon! 2 C'etoit, par excellence, ce qu'on appclle un galant homtne,—noble, sensible, genereux, plein de... | |
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May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day ; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon. 
