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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion - Page 123
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - 1818 - 358 pages
...in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charme more than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from...
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Specimens of the British Poets: Whitehead, 1785, to Anstey, 1805

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 466 pages
...in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with 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, ON THE LOSS OF THE ROYAL GEORGE. TOLL for the brave ! The brave that are...
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Melcombe lodge; or, Traits of family pride! By a lady, Volume 1

Melcombe lodge - 1819 - 262 pages
...wither'd leare• below. " Stilness, accompanied with &o»nd» so soft, " Charms more than silence. Meditation here '' May think down hours to moments. Here the «' heart " May give «n useful lesson to the head, " And Learning wiser grow without his book." Sir Charles affectionately...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart Slay give a useful lesson to the head, ADil Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no counexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thonghts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1821 - 246 pages
...than silence. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lessou to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books....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...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1821 - 556 pages
...in the withered leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with 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 wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from...
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Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical ..., Volume 10

John Aikin - 1821 - 278 pages
...in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with 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 wiser grow without his bocks. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from...
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The rural walks of Cowper; displayed in a series of views near Olney ...

James Sargant Storer - 1822 - 110 pages
...none that hinders thought. Stillness, accompanied with sounds like these, Charms more than silence. Meditation here, May think down hours to moments....the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Returning through the Shrubbery, and proceeding towards Olney, the road is presently crossed by Overs-brook....
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 80

British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...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 wiser grow...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...
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The English Reading Book in Verse: Adapted to Domestic and to School Education

William Jillard Hort - 1822 - 234 pages
...in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with 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 wiser grow without his books. THE FROZEN SHOWER. Phillip*....
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