 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber...so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, H 3 15O THE TASJC. BOQK. Vr. Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber .whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud lhathehas learned so much; Wisdom is humble that heicnows no more. Books are riot seldom talismans... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to eurich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books... | |
 | William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rnde unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom bullds, Till smooth'd, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to eurich. Knowledge is prond that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...own. Knowledge, a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber...so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By which the magic art of shrewder wits Holds an unthinking... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1821 - 246 pages
...own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems t ' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much : Wisdom is humble that he knows no more,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 pages
...men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd, and squared,...it seems to' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pages
...men ; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd, and squared,...it seems to' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells,... | |
 | William Withering - Medicine - 1822 - 534 pages
...and illustrating that . . " Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have oft times no connexion: Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." Hence, after meditating on the discoveries and sublime speculations of a great astronomer, and sweeping... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...men Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smooth'd, and squared,...it seems to' enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has leam'd so much Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. Books are not seldom talismans and spells, By... | |
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which wisdom builds, Till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber... 
