 | 1823 - 616 pages
...they must be formed. — Tis not in battles thai from youth we train The Governor who must be wise :md good, And temper with the sternness of the brain '...knees: Books, leisure, perfect freedom and the talk Wan holds with week-day man in the hourly walk Of the mind's business : these are the degrees By which... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 616 pages
...are brought forward in distempered times, but it is in peaceable ones that they must be formed. — Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor...with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, am) meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees: i . Books, leisure, perfect... | |
 | Anna Garlin Spencer - Families - 1923 - 338 pages
...is his kinsman, and that to care for all men is according to man's nature." — MABCUS AURELITJS. " 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The governor who must be wise and good. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees ; Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk Man... | |
 | sir William Rough - 1825 - 344 pages
...there be one characteristic of a governor " who would be wise and good" ; of a governor, Who tempers with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly and meek as womanhood; —if there be one essential characteristic quality of a governor more clear and undisputed than another,... | |
 | Robert Southey - Social problems - 1831 - 488 pages
...the crimes which they have actually committed, by those which they have .witnessed, and in which they have been inevitably, perhaps unwillingly, engaged,.....the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood. AVisdom doth live with children round her knees, Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk Man... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...just desires, And knowledge such as hf could never gain * "Tis not in battles that from youth we tram The governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherl}' and weak as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees : Books, leisure, perfect... | |
 | John Kenyon - English poetry - 1833 - 176 pages
...to the compiler of such a work. Note 12, page 130. And linh to the stern brain a trusting heart. " And temper with the sternness of the brain • Thoughts motherly and meek as womanhood." Wordsworth. Note 13, page 130. Nor love taught faith, as Knighthood fierce to start. When beauty smiles... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...knowledge could he gain ? 'Tis not in battles that from youlh we train The governor who must be wise nnd good. And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts...meek as womanhood. Wisdom doth live with children rouml her knees : Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the talk Man holds with week-day man in the... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...that Man's mind — what can it be ! what food Fed his first hopes ? what knowledge could he gain a 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor...live with children round her knees : Books, leisure, perfeet freedom, and the talk Man holds with week-day man in the hourly walk Of the mind's business... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 616 pages
...who aspires To genuine greatness but from just desires. And knowledge such as he could never gain ? 'Tis not in battles that from youth we train The governor...sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womankind. Wisdom doth live with children round her knees : Books, leisure, perfect freedom, and the... | |
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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 with children round her knees... 
