...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. c. MILTON— Paradise Hegained. Bk. IV. Line 322. A Lumber-house of books in ev'ry head, For ever reading,...

...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 " — Newton said at the close of his life : "To myself I seem to have been as a child picking up stones...

...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. ' —Milton. Much depends on the way in which we read, on the fervour METHOD IN READING. 163 with which...

...Uncertain and unsettled still 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 tho shore.' " Sir Isaac Newton applied that last line to his own sense of the relation between all...

...humility. It is to the effect that as to real knowledge we are but children yet. Milton's words are : — " Collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore." Swift said that some people could see more in Homer than ever Homer knew. I do not profess to see this...

...,,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." And as to studying the Greek poets and orators, why should he not be satisfied with the great singers...

...Uncertain and unsettled still remain?, Deep versed 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, where...

..." Paradise Regained," Who reads Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, he following is the third stanza: Art was published in 1671. Sir David Brewster, in his "Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton," vol. ii. p. 407, records...

...Uncertain and unsettled still remains. Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...gathering pebbles on the shore. "Paradise Regained" was published in 1671. Sir David Brewster, in his " Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton," vul. ii. p. 407,...

...brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) 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. 330 Or, if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native...