 | Horace Mann - 1845 - 352 pages
...have been caught from a celebrated couplet of Pope : " A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring ; There, shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, But drinking deeper sobers us again." One would like to know what extent of acquired knowledge would... | |
 | Minister and co, ltd - 1875 - 458 pages
...its several points. The succeeding lines of the poet, " Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian sprirg; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again," would seem to- point to the latter interpretation, and we have no hesitation in stating that, in our... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...Pascal, the model of good style in the French z2 A little learn/ IK/ is a dang'rous thing ; 215 Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There, shallow...intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts, 220... | |
 | Thomas Stokes - 1847 - 94 pages
...by an English poet. (See Acts xvii. 28.) • , •" A little knowledge is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow...the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." ',*; ii ,. , • . ч- • THE TABLE OF THE LORD \' „'".'-. y 'ilTü Is emblematical of the crucified... | |
 | 1848 - 622 pages
...doth bring tho mind back again to religion. Lord Bacon. 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. Pope. P Did Burns borrow, in a couplet that has become proverbial ? For rank is but the guinea's stamp... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 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 draughts intoxicate the hrain, And drinking largely sohers us again. Fired at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - 1849 - 262 pages
...and every foe. 1 § 251. 2 fi 90, R. 8. 3 & 54, R. 22. 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.-/ Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...to know Make use of every friend — and every foe. A littte 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...3I»ke use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous tiling ! Drink deop, or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow draughts...intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fired at tirst sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we ternpt the height of arts, 220... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 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... | |
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A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again. 
