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" Wise men have said are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in... "
The Pursuits of Literature: A Satirical Poem in Four Dialogues. With Notes - Page 452
by Thomas James Mathias - 1803 - 574 pages
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Thirty Years' Correspondence Between John Jebb -- and Alexander Knox--, Volume 1

John Jebb - 1835 - 404 pages
...not the most diligent and laborious study of the ancients, that will do : for you know, .... i wno reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A...judgment equal or superior, Uncertain and unsettled still rcmauis, Deep versed in books, and shallow in himtelf.' ciple, in comparison with which, all the rest...
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A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies

Samuel Warren - 1835 - 582 pages
...or Starkie of the rules of evidence which he has just seen exemplified. SECTION XI. COMMON PLACING. Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings, what need he elsewhere seek) Uncertain and unsettled still remains ; Deep versed...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 2

John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...awry.' Dunsler. VOL. Ii. 18 An empty cloud. However, many books Wise men have said are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?)325 Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep vers'd...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 27

1840 - 594 pages
...a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' " " Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior (And what he brings, what need he elsewhere seek ?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed...
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Select Works of the British Poets: In a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson ...

John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...false resemblance only meets, An empty cloud. However, many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome ; aid, he first Against the window beats ; then, brisk, alights On the warm hearth ; then, hopp (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek Î) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep vers'd...
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The Saturday Magazine ...

1842 - 1008 pages
...inspire the master with more kindly wlings towards them, than this friendly and heartPeering feast. HE who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings...superior, Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep vereed in books, and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, As children gathering...
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The Saint Petersburg English Review of Literature, the Arts and ..., Volume 2

1842 - 630 pages
...the principle, that in examining a work of new character and of high pretensions, (') «He who reads and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, « will in vain hope either to appreciate its merits with justice, or to extract from it that pure...
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Results of Reading

James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.' Many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not...superior, Uncertain and unsettled still remains— Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. 2 Perhaps no writer has borrowed so little, and is so well...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...false resemblance only meets, An empty cloud. However, many books, Wise men have'said, are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek ? ) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed...
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The Christian Examiner and General Review

Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1843 - 420 pages
...famine, so does besotted ignorance change the soul's refection to a thing of mere seeming. " Who reads, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, Uncertain and unsettled yet remains ; Deep versed in books, but shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys, And...
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