 | General reader - 1827 - 246 pages
...jrThey'll do awhile to sport upon, But not to love so fervently. ,'"' KNOWLEDGE. CONTRASTED WITH WISDOM. 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 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. Knowledge and Wisdom,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pages
...Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms more than silence. Meditation here May think down hoursto moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson...books. Knowledge and Wisdom far from being one, Have oftimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 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. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...Charms more than silence. Meditation her* May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a rowess hod subdued their foes t Thus war, affording...virtue, made one chief, whom times of peace, Wliich connexion. Knowledge dwell* In heads replete with thoughts of other men ; Wisdom in minds attentive... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pages
...Meditation here May think down hours-to moments. Here the heart 85 May give a useful lesson to the head, 11* And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oftimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; 90 Wisdom in minds... | |
 | John Watkins - 1833 - 526 pages
...and profitable to imitate. Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart Mav give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. COWPPR. While the patriarch was exercised in religious contemplation, and probably the thoughts of... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1834 - 432 pages
...conclude this section better than with another quotation, very beautifully adapted to the subject : Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head ; And learning wiser grow without its books. Knowledge and wisdom, far... | |
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That tinkle 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 an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his... 
