 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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,1 far... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 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... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1845 - 476 pages
...THE AUTHOR OF •THE PIONEERs," "LAsT oF THE MoHICANs," " PRAIRIE," *.« ' Here the heart May give $ useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. COWFXB. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. PHILADELPHIA: LEA A-ND.BLANCHARD Entered, according to Act of Congress,... | |
 | Charles Bricket Haddock - 1846 - 604 pages
...nature. A familiar poet has expressed the thought so well, that you will suffer me to quote him. " 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 from... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1846 - 202 pages
...watching their flocks by moonlight. Stillness, accompanied by 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. This retired and lowly vale... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 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 - 1849 - 740 pages
...tinkle 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, 86 And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and wisdom,* far... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 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 aj*seml lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1901 - 312 pages
...Compare Locksley Hall ; ' Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers': and Cowper's somewhat prosaic lines, Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection... Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. (Task, vi. 88.) At the... | |
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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... 
