 | Mary Ann Evans - 1885 - 506 pages
...precious lines— " 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts...womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees." Has he the magnificent sonnet on Toussaint 1'Ouverture ? I don't know where there is anything finer... | |
 | George Eliot - Novelists, English - 1885 - 398 pages
...Tis not in battles that from youth we train l9th April, The governor who must be wise and good, *88o. And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts...meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children rowui her knees." Has he the magnificent sonnet on Toussaint 1'Ouverture? I don't know where there... | |
 | George Eliot - Novelists, English - 1885 - 502 pages
...precious lines— " 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts...motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live laith children round her knees." Has he the magnificent sonnet on Toussaiut 1'Ouverture ? I don't know... | |
 | George Eliot - Novelists, English - 1885 - 370 pages
...not in battles that from youth we train i9th April, The governor who must be wise and good, 'ssoAnd temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live wilh children round her ittees." Has he the magnificent sonnet on Toussaint 1,Ouverture ? I don,t know... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - Recitations - 1899 - 266 pages
...that can dwell alone in a forest. It is also a wisdom that can live with children round its knees, and " Temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly and meek as womanhood." Puritanism, whatever else may belong to. it, involves three essential things,—First, obedience to... | |
 | Lucy Larcom - Meditations - 1887 - 252 pages
...thy duty shalt thou know what is in thee. But what is thy duty ? — The demand of the hour. GOETHE. "Wisdom doth live with children round her knees ;...week-day man in the hourly walk Of the mind's business. WORDSWOBTH. 16 October. The mind should be allowed to dwell only on thoughts that are happy, satisfying,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 454 pages
...secret, mingling in the currents of private study and social converse, and entering largely into *' llie talk man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk of the mind's business," for some years before they could w<jrk and establish themselves into definite legislative and judicial... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Henry Norman Hudson - 1889 - 251 pages
...could he gain? 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts...womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees: 7 In the Summer of 1802, Wordsworth and his sister made a short visit to Franco, and arrived at Calais... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1889 - 140 pages
...could he gain? ‘Tis not iii battles that from youth we train Time Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts...womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees: I In the Summer of 1802, Wordsworth and his sister made a short visit to !‘rance, md srrived at Culals... | |
 | Church and the world - 1889 - 600 pages
...that can dwell alone in a forest. It is also a wisdom that can live with children round its knees, and " Temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood." Puritanism is not a particular form of religious faith. The five points of Calvinism are as consistent... | |
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The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees: Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk 10 Man holds with week-day man in... 
