 Wise men have said, are wearisome : who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow...  The Classical Journal - Seite 1061826Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Joseph SPENCE - 1858 - 488 Seiten
...Uncertain and unsettled still remains ; Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. EDITOK. END OF SECTION I. SPENCE'S ANECDOTES. SECTION II. 1730-32. IANCHINT endeavoured to find out... | |
 | John Milton - 1862 - 568 Seiten
...Uncertain arid unsettled still remains, Deep vers'd in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my p.'ivate hours With* music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 Seiten
...and unsettled still remains, " Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself, " Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys " And trifles for choice matters,...sponge ; " As children gathering pebbles on the shore. 330 " Or, if I would delight my private hours " With music or with poem; where, so soon " As in our... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1865 - 312 Seiten
...character to frame systems on insufficient knowledge, and to explain false systems by false hypotheses, — Collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge ; As children gathering pebbles on the shore.* We can understand, then, that the Greeks should make the earth the centre of all celestial motions,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 Seiten
...uncertain and unsettled .-(ill remains. Deep versed In books, and shallow in himself; Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shon. The praise of such a passage as this would be like an attempt to gild the sunbeam. When Satan... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 394 Seiten
...unsettled still remaius, Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself, Crnde or intoxicate, colleeting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore-"—MILTON. 7 VII. " Non omuis moriar, multaque pars mci Vitabit Libitinam." — HORACE. " Nulla... | |
 | Dennis de Berdt Hovell - 1866 - 138 Seiten
...Uncertain and unsettled still remains ; Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. The Prince of Philosophers thus simply and modestly replied, when his friends expressed their admiration... | |
 | 1866 - 410 Seiten
...and unsettled still remains, ** Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge ; As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. »» Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem,... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1867 - 1204 Seiten
...themselves, 1 Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys Paradisa Lost. 1867.] The Education of the World. 19 " And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge ; " As children gathering pebbles on the shore."* In ten thousand ways, and from the very dawn of civilization, have men been at work on the outside... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 Seiten
...Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself,.). Crude or intoxicate collecting toys And trifles of choice matters, worth a sponge ; As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Paradise Regained, Book IV. THE frame of mind in which we read a work often influences our judgment upon it. That which... | |
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