His father was mildly surprised, but applauded the apparent desire for solitary study.

I have found, also, that my rate of reading and solitary study was phenomenal.

That, toy may be purchased by steady application, and long solitary study and reflection.

But how faint, how cold is the sensation which a peaceful mind can receive from solitary study!

For some time after, Swift was probably employed in solitary study, gaining the qualifications requisite for future eminence.

By solitary study, to uphold

Thrown on the world at the age of sixteen, he had passed his youth in alternate pleasure, travel, and solitary study.

He had arrived at his knowledge of tactics by silent, solitary study, and earnest meditation in the sequestered retreat of his state-room.

It was of this man, and of his success, that Lord Middlesex was envious, as he sat, wretched and respectable, in his solitary study!

As to solitary study, lists of books, pictures, and maps can alone be given; and to do this usefully would exceed our space at present.

A virtuous education and solitary studies had given to her all that culture can add to an excellent nature.

Solitary study has its advantages: it does not cast you in the official mould; it leaves you all your originality.

Nor did these serious and solitary studies withdraw him from the pursuit of wisdom among men and in the active world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson urged him to visit Concord and rest awhile from the strain of his solitary studies in the Sierra Nevada.

Lawrence "laughed a laugh of merry scorn," and left her to her solitary studies and the patient nursing of her purpose.