 | lady Dorothea Knighton - 1838 - 480 pages
...little more independent ; and feeling conscious of this, it takes off the load of anticipated ills. ' He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre and enjoy bright day.' " It will give you great satisfaction to hear from me that Lord Wellesley's... | |
 | Hobart Caunter - 1839 - 590 pages
...lines of our great epic poet:— He that has light within hia own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul...under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon. COM us. Balaam, " loving the wages of unrighteousness," anxiously importuned the Lord Jehovah to be... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...VOL. ii. 31 * That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to 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 dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under... | |
 | Penitent - 1839 - 330 pages
...more familiar our intimacy with it, the more painful and difficult is the separation. CHAPTER XXIII. " 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... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 pages
...ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. 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...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... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1840 - 328 pages
...Conscienza I'asiicura, La buona compagna che 1'uom francheggia Sotto 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 dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under... | |
 | 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 sit i' the centre and enjoy bright day : But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1841 - 304 pages
...so sublimely said by Milton, ' 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,...under the mid-day sun : Himself is his own dungeon.' " Eccentric, and perhaps inconsistent, as this conduct was, it was impossible not to respeot Lord Rochfort... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 512 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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 sit i' the centre and enjoy bright day ; But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks... | |
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Oft seeks to sweet retired Solitude; "Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were ail-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He, that has light within his own clear... 
