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| First Written | 1671 |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Origin | UK |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| My Copy | combined in my little 'oxford book of milton's english poems' |
| First Read | December 28, 2008 |
Paradise Regained
However, many books, / Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads / Incessantly, and to his reading brings not / A spirit and judgment equal or superior, / (And what he brings what needs he elsewhere seek?) / Uncertain and unsettled still remains, / Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself, / Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys / And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, / As children gathering pebbles on the shore."
Quoted on April 28, 2010