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" 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 in... "
The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine - Page 40
1857
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Milton's Legacy

Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - 2005 - 278 pages
...without self-knowledge, "judgement and discretion." Compare A SERMON. 39-41, and Paradise Regained: who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior still remains. Deep verst in books and shallow in himself. (4.322-24, 26-27) 22. George, Lord Bishop...
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How We Read: Passion for Knowledge Disciplined by Subtle Turns of Strategies ...

Rong Fan - 2006 - 169 pages
...survive long into the future, we better 151 have some smartness to use it right and for our interests.] Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed...
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Delirious Milton: The Fate of the Poet in Modernity

Gordon Teskey - 2006 - 238 pages
...its reading of the classical texts a vigorous, decisive judgment. Such a reader will be "Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, / Crude or intoxicate,...collecting toys / And trifles for choice matters" (PR 4.327-329). Note the phrase "collecting toys/ And trifles." This suppositious reader also is extracting...
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