 | William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pages
...Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think downhours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow...The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow...The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and fitted to its place> Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge... | |
 | 1802 - 302 pages
...more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart, 85 May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow...dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; 90 Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprof.table mass, The mere materials... | |
 | 1801 - 432 pages
...wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of...The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t" enrich. Knowledge... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow...wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow...dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; - •. \Visdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rudo unprofitable mass, The mere materials... | |
 | William Cowper - 1808 - 338 pages
...lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his hooks. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from heing one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells...in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitahle mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom huilds, Till smooth'd, and squar'd, and fitted... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 384 pages
...sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning...The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smooth'd, and squar'd, and fitted to it's place. Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning...dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; 90 Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 212 pages
...learning wiser grow without his books. • Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with...The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd and squar'd and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t' enrich. Knowledge... | |
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Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds,... 
