 ... and pursuing the trains of thought which his mother wit suggests! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there with the exiled Prince to find "tongues in the trees, books in the running brooks!  Bombay Quarterly Review - Page 3841855Full view - About this book
 | 1893 - 642 pages
...quotes "from Dr. Newman's Lectures " as telling against a system of over-pressure in education, the case of ' the poor boy in the poem, — a poem, whether...who, not in the wide world, but ranging day by day round his widowed mother's home, a dexterous gleaner in a narrow field, and with only such slender... | |
 | sir Benjamin Collins Brodie (1st bart.) - 1854 - 310 pages
...meet with them, and pursuing the trains of thoughts which his mother wit suggests ! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there with the exiled...who, not in the wide world, but ranging day by day round his widowed mother's home, a dexterous gleaner in a narrow field, and with only such slender... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1856 - 320 pages
...meet with them, and pursuing the trains of thoughts which his mother wit suggests ! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there with the exiled prince to find 'tongues in the trees, hooks in the running hrooks.' How much more genuine an education is that of the poor hoy in the poem,... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1857 - 324 pages
...and pursuing the trains of thoughts which his mother wit suggests I How much healthier to wander in the fields, and there with the exiled prince to find...who, not in the wide world, but ranging day by day round his widowed mother's home, a dexterous gleaner in a narrow field, and with only such slender... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1857 - 304 pages
...and pursuing the trains of thoughts which his mother wit suggests I How much healthier to wander in the fields, and there with the exiled prince to find 'tongues in the trees, books in the running brooks.1 How much more genuine an education is that of the poor boy in the poem, — a poem, whether... | |
 | John Henry Newman - 1859 - 382 pages
...they meet him, and pursuing the trains of thought which his mother wit suggests ! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there with the exiled...in the Poem' — a Poem, whether in conception or in execution, one of the most touching in our language — who, not in the wide world, but ranging... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1862 - 300 pages
...meet with them, and pursuing the trains of thoughts which his mother wit suggests! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there with the exiled...genuine an education is that of the poor boy in the poem,—a poem, whether in conception or execution, one of the most touching in our language,—who,... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie, Charles Hawkins - 1865 - 770 pages
...meet with them, and pursuing the trains of thoughts which his mother wit suggests ! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there with the exiled...who, not in the wide world, but ranging day by day round his widowed mother's home, a dexterous gleaner in a narrow field, and with only such slender... | |
 | Sir Benjamin Brodie - 1865 - 734 pages
...meet with them, and pursuing the trains of thoughts which his mother wit suggests ! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there with the exiled...who, not in the wide world, but ranging day by day round his widowed mother's home, a dexterous gleaner in a narrow field, and with only such slender... | |
 | George Moore - 1868 - 456 pages
...meet with them, and pursuing the trains of thoughts which his mother wit suggests ! How much healthier to wander into the fields, and there, with the exiled...who, not in the wide world, but ranging day by day round his widowed mother's home, a dexterous gleaner in a narrow field, and with only such a slender... | |
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