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
| Thomas Fuller - Biography - 1841 - 496 pages
...celebrated lines in the " Essay on Criticism : "— " 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,"—EDIT. II. He desires to imitate the ancient Fathers, as well in their piety, as in their... | |
| Basil Hall - Europe - 1841 - 880 pages
...what had seemed — but erroneously as we then found — the highest crest of the mountain : — Fired at first sight with what the Muse 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... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 530 pages
...ignorance. This should teach us to take the poet's advice : " 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." Nor is pedantry peculiar to those only, who begin to read and study late in life ; for it is too often... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Theology - 1842 - 520 pages
...ignorance. This should teach us to take the poet's advice : " 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." Nor is pedantry peculiar to those only, who begin to read and study late in life ; for it is too often... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1842 - 514 pages
...teach us to take the poet's advice : " A little learning ia a dangerous thing : Drink deep, or taate not the Pierian spring. There shallow draughts intoxicate...the brain; And drinking largely sobers us again." Nor is pedantry peculiar to those only, who begin to read and study late in life ; for it is too often... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1842 - 262 pages
...Pierian spring : There shallow draught? intoxicate 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 height? if arts, While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths... | |
| Joel Hawes - Conduct of life - 1842 - 200 pages
...both true and important. A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierean spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. He who would read profitably, must read with an humble and teachable mind, and be ready to embrace... | |
| Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend-and ev'ry foe. A Hull' learning is a dang'rous 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 tevel of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more... | |
| Congregational churches - 1844 - 602 pages
...Hence the poet's advice is bulh true and important : 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. He who would read profitably must read with an humble and teachable mind, and be ready to embrace truth,... | |
| Raymundo Joaquín Sada Anaya - Creation - 1999 - 332 pages
...Oratio de hominis dignitatc/ A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pieran spring; There, shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely, sobers us again, Alexander Pope. Una primera consideración que salta a la vista respecto a la oración sobre la dignidad... | |
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