 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 512 pages
...glow of outward moral excellence. "He that hath light within his own clear breast, , May sit in th' centre, and enjoy bright day ; But he that hides a...foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the midday sun." $ 241. Of the perception of moral beauty considered as a source of happiness. But, while this source... | |
 | Thomas C. Upham - 1841 - 496 pages
...the glow of outward moral excellence. "He that hath light within his own clear breast, May sit in th' centre, and enjoy bright day ; But he that hides a dark soul and foal thoughts, Benighted walks under the midday sun." 4 241. Of the perception of moral beauty considered... | |
 | 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 - 444 pages
...She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That, iii the various bustle of resort, Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impaired. He that has light...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... | |
 | 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...under 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. ia his own dungeon. 385 Sec. Br. 'Tis most true, Of dragon-watch, with unenchanted eye, 391 To save... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...grow her wings. That in ilie various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. hum of men, Where throngs of knights and barons bold,...peace, high triumphs hold. With store of ladies, whose BenighU'd walks under the mid-day Sun; Himself is his own dungeon. 385 Sec. Br. 'Tis most true, That... | |
 | William Beattie, William Henry Bartlett - 1844 - 436 pages
...against the machinations of Fortune — " He thit has lifjht within hia own clear breast, M»y eit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day ; But he that hides a...under the mid-day sun — Himself is his own dungeon." The sufferings inflicted upon Robert in this dismal prison, are a theme on which the old chronicles... | |
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He that has light within his own clear breast, 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. 
