 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 страници
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 страници
...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, 220... | |
 | George Willis - 1856 - 320 страници
...In Pope's Essay on Criticism, line 21 5. The quatrain proffers the admonitory caution and advice — A little learning is a dang'rous thing ; Drink deep or taste not of the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 страници
...to 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 imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts, While,... | |
 | Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 страници
...thus exemplified the poet's sentiments : "A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or tasto not the Pierian spring : — There shallow draughts...the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." To express the same general sentiment in the words of inspiration itself; professing themselves wise,... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 страници
...defects 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 bram, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 страници
...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... | |
 | 1858 - 402 страници
...is now as Pope meant, when he wrote: " A little learning ii a daugerotu thing, Drink deep or taete not the Pierian Spring, There shallow draughts intoxicate...the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." All superficiality has a direct and manifest tendency towards indifference if not towards atheism ;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 страници
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 504 страници
...know Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink dcep, ithful Mydon, as he turn'd from fight His flying coursers,...endless night: A broken rock by Nestor's son was Fired at first sight with what the Muse imports, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, T»>... | |
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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. 
