...false resemblance only meets, An empty cloud. However, many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome ; aid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopp (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek Î) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep vers'd...

...ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." A similar idea occurs in the Paradise Regained :— Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not...collecting toys, And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. In Strutt's " Sports and Pastimes of the People...

...encumbering his genius. They are taken from the fourth book of " Paradise Regained," verse 322 :— " He who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not...in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, As children gathering pebbles on the shore." In the above lines Milton clearly shews wherein pedantry...

...inspire the master with more kindly wlings towards them, than this friendly and heartPeering feast. HE who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not...superior, Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep vereed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, As children gathering...

...the principle, that in examining a work of new character and of high pretensions, (') «He who reads and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, « will in vain hope either to appreciate its merits with justice, or to extract from it that pure...

...diligent meditation, we acquire something which may truly be called our own : for, as Milton says, " Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not...remains. Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself." I have thus indicated some of the answers which may be given to the three great questions that arise...

...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.' Many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not...superior, Uncertain and unsettled still remains— Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. 2 Perhaps no writer has borrowed so little, and is so well...

...false resemblance only meets, An empty cloud. However, many books, 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...

...famine, so does besotted ignorance change the soul's refection to a thing of mere seeming. " Who reads, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, Uncertain and unsettled yet remains ; Deep versed in books, but shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And...

...false resemblance only meets, An empty cloud. However, many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome ; th oar and sail. As when a gryphon, through the wilderness With winged course, o'er hill or m (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek ?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep vers'd...