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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... "
Illustrations of Sterne: With Other Essays and Verses - Page 66
by John Ferriar - 1812
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...resemblance only meets, 320 An empty cloud. However, many books, AV'ise men have said, are wearisome : who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not...judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek?} 3*5 Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep vers'd in books and shallow...
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Essay on instinct, and its physical and moral relations

Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pages
...is much wisdom in the remark, and I think it may be applied instructively in the present argument: ' who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not...and Judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings, tchat need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains ; Deep versed in books, and shallow...
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Essay on Instinct, and Its Physical and Moral Relations

Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 584 pages
...is much wisdom in the remark, and I think it may be applied instructively in the present argument: who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A Spirit and Judgment equal or superior, (.hul what he brings, what need he eltewhere teek ?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains ; Deep versed...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 3

John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...vii. 126. But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her tcmp'rance over appetite, Ac. Thycr. 198 A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings, what needs he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, 326 Deep vers'd in books and shallow...
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Noctes Atticae: Or, Reveries in a Garret; Containing Short, and Chiefly ...

Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...with equal powers of skill and discernment. ' However many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and a judgment, equal or superior, (And what he brings, what need he elsewhere seek ?) Uncertain and unsettled...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...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 vers'd in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intpxicate, collecting toys, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. sso Or...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Volume 4

John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...errare per multos." Senec. De Tranquillitat, Animi. C. 9. DUNSTER. Wise men have said, are wearisome ; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgement equal or superiour, 324 (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek ?)! Uncertain and...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 11

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...incessantly. Faerie Quemt. The incessant weeping of my wife. Forced me to seek delays. Skakipeare. Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or tuperior. If by prayer Inceuant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would...
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The Monthly Repository and Review of Theology and General Literature, Volume 4

Liberalism (Religion) - 1830 - 986 pages
...redeemed. It is Milton who puts into the mouth of his sacred Hero, the opinion, that " Who reads, And reads incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior .;• Uncertain and unsettled still remains, . Deep vers'd in books aud shallow in himself." Paradise...
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Biographical sketches of eminent characters. To which are added ...

James Cossar Ewart - 1830 - 494 pages
...regard to books, you will read here what Milton says, before he wrote ' Paradise Lost. 1 " --- He, who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and a temper, equal or superior, Unsettled and uncertain still remains, Deep versed in books, but shallow...
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