 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...Fired at first sight with what the muse imparte, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, да2 While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths hehind ; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1825 - 682 pages
...me go on. You must not be so exact in poetry. You will see by what is coming that I am right." • " But more advanc'd, behold, with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise." " Science ! " interrupted Harry. " Now, my dear, I can go on by myself." " So pleased at first the... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.'' " Fired at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the...views we take, nor see the lengths behind, But more advanced, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise ! So pleased at... | |
 | Denis Lane - 1990 - 290 pages
...dangerous thing" (215) and continuing: Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts, While from the...at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky. Th'eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains... | |
 | William V. Spanos - 1995 - 396 pages
...the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind, But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220 While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! So pleased at first... | |
 | Richard W. Bevis - 1999 - 442 pages
...Criticism (1711), for example, Pope compares a long course of study to an Alpine climb: In fearless Youth we tempt the Heights of Arts, While from the...Lengths behind, But more advanc'd, behold with strange Surprize New, distant scenes of endless Science rise! So pleas'd at first, the towring Alps we try,... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 pages
...The simile tells a story of overconfidence leading into danger. Illustrating how "In fearless Youthwe tempt the Heights of Arts, / While from the bounded Level of our Mind, / Short Views we take," Pope adopts an alpine context to explain the dangerous inaccuracy of such intellectual presumption:... | |
 | Grant Ian Thrall - 2002 - 274 pages
...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 from the...at first, the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; Th' eternal snows appear already past And the first clouds and mountains... | |
 | Jan Sapp - 2003 - 388 pages
...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 from the...surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise! Alexander Pope (1688-1744), "A Little Learning" Preface What is evolution? What is an organism? What... | |
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Fir'd 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 more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes... 
