| Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 pages
...use of every friend — and evety foe A little learning is a dangerou- thing; Drink deep, or tasle not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again. So leas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount oYr the vales aml seem to trtad the sky : Th' eternal... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 pages
...foe. Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, A little learuing is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow...intoxicate the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again. l. FlrM at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...know, Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing 1 ' Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow...intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fired at first sight with what the muse imparte, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, да2... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...to know, Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow...intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 682 pages
...if Lucy would repeat four or five, he knew he could then go on cleverly. Lucy repeated — " Fired at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we 'tempt the height of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind."... | |
| 1825 - 610 pages
...subjects, the lines of Pope may be justly applied. — " A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain; Bnt drinking largely sobers as again." Dr. Isaac Watts, in his excellent Treatise on the Improvement... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1825 - 508 pages
...$e Fir1«! at first sight with whatthe Muse imparts, In fearlew youth we Icmpt the heights of Art* While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, vor see the length* behind ; But more advanc'd, behold, with strange surprise, New distant весив«... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pages
...to know, .Make use of cv'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow...the brain ; And drinking largely sobers us again. 9 Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth, we tempt the heights of arts;... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1826 - 652 pages
...disgust and aversion to them. It is with the knowledge of the world, as Pope says it is with learning : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. The only reason why a young person cannot be safely trusted with viewing the vices, as well as the... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 224 pages
...science rise' A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink dee 1 .), or taste not the Pierian spying: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. So, pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; Th'... | |
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