 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 Seiten
...to know, Make use of ev'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. Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 350 Seiten
...but that 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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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'... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 Seiten
...icnow', Make use ofcv'ry friend' — and ev'ry foe*. A little learning fs a dangerous thing* ; Drink deep', or taste not the Pierian spring There shallow...the brain* ; And drinking largely sobers us again*. 3 Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts', In fearless youth', we tempt the heights of arts*... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 Seiten
...to Knowr, Make use of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry 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 sobers us again. S. Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, ;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1828 - 252 Seiten
...Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense . 3 Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth, we tempt the heights ot arts; While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind;... | |
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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. 
