...Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore." (PR, IV.^321-3o.) In an earlier book Milton more fully expounds the same philosophy: "But, if there...

...Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge; As children gathering pebbles on the shore." Irritated by the failure of all his attempts, Satan next taunts his opponent by describing the sufferings...

...Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Does not this express Milton's idea of true knowledge? A complete education he defined as "that which...

...Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Or, if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language...

...Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Studying leisurely in this way is the golden mean between idle reading as a mere pastime, taking an...

...Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. 330 Or, if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native...

...Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore." Demosthenes tells us he put the pebbles in his mouth he gathered on the shore, as a cure for his stammer...

...Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore." Demosthenes tells us he put the pebbles in his mouth he gathered on the shore, as a cure for his stammer...

...Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. MILTON IT is common to hear a reader complain because a book has made too great a demand upon his patience...

...Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth...sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore. MILTON IT is common to hear a reader complain because a book has made too great a demand upon his patience...