 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not yourself ; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thing; 215 Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : COMMENTARY. Ver. 215. A little learning,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 210 COMMENTARY. " Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry Friend — and ev'ry Foe. Both the beginning and conclusion of this precept, are remarkable. The question is of the means to... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 210 COMMENTARY. " Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry Friend — and ev'ry Foe. • Both the beginning and conclusion of this precept, are remarkable. The question is of the means... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...resistless day. Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink...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 - 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...resistless day. Trust not yourself; but, your defeets to know, ЛIake use of every friend — and every id it proteet ; Yera, the nymph that him inspired,...often here retired, And on these oaks engraved her intoxieate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Kn-'d at first sight with what the Muse... | |
 | 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 - 1826 - 286 pages
...breaks upon us with resistless dav. * Trust riot yourself; but your defects to know, .Make use of cv'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dangerous...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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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. 
