 That 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, And learning wiser grow without his books.  Poems - Page 170by William Cowper - 1808Full view - About this book
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1840 - 244 pages
...PATHFINDER: OR, THE INLAND SEA. BY THE AUTHOR OF •THE PIONEERs," "LAsT OP THE MOHICANS," "PKAIRIB," to. - Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. Cowpi PHILADELPHIA: LEA AND BLANCHARD, 1840. Ftt; Lie IV. ^W ."--.'... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...rests he shakes 80 From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms...here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart 85 May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1842 - 162 pages
...rests he shakes 60 From many a twig the pendent drops of ice, That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms...here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart 85 May give a useful lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom,... | |
 | 1842 - 858 pages
...Hitting light From spray to spray, where'er he rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant draps. — Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give я useful leison to the head. — Cowrr.it. IT was late in a fine summer's evening when we arrived... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1843 - 342 pages
...which stood upon the foundations of a Pagan one. -Meditation here May think down hours to momenta. Here the heart May give a useful lesson to the head, And, learning, wiser grow without her books." He was the builder of some fifty other churches ; the Monument, Temple-bar, and several... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...rests he shakes From many a twig the pendant drops of ice, That tinkle in the withered leaves below. hower books. Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads... | |
 | Thomas Brettell - Isle of Wight (England) - 1844 - 220 pages
...variety, combined with the extent of the sea-view, lend an extraordinary charm to this peaceful retreat. : Meditation here " May think down hours to moments....lesson to the head, " And Learning wiser grow without her books." The parish of Binstead was originally a grant of half a hide of land, from William the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 880 pages
...Chirm* more than silence. Meditation here MIT thin k down hours to moments. Here ' the heart .Mir gire a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books." Bat yet those lovely lines, for which the rtole world is his debtor, have scarcely • •... | |
 | James Caughey - Methodist Church - 1844 - 344 pages
...shaded with lofty trees, " where meditation Might think down hours to minutes, where the Heart might give a useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow, without her books." you would not wonder that I enjoy the " full tide of health," and of what the world calls... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...rests he shakes From many a twig the pendrnt drops of ice That tinkle in the wither'd leaves below. Stillness, accompanied with sounds so soft, Charms...lesson to the head, And Learning wiser grow without his books. Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells In... | |
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