 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.  Poems - Page 21by Joseph Addison - 1810 - 597 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Carlile - Free thought - 1824 - 876 pages
...occasion of my saying, " A little learning is a dangerous thing," To which I will now subjoin, " Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow...the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." POPE. Mr. Locke says, " There are not so many men in errors, and uTong opinions, as is commonly supposed.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Oral reading - 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 - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...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...imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind f But more... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 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,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
...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...imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But more... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 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;... | |
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