 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 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...ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : Thereshallow draughts intoxicate the brain ; And drinking... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 224 pages
...science rise' A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink dee 1 .), or taste not the Pierian spying: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. So, pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky; Th'... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1826 - 652 pages
...disgust and aversion to them. It is with the knowledge of the world, as Pope says it is with learning : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. The only reason why a young person cannot be safely trusted with viewing the vices, as well as the... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - 1826 - 314 pages
...Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. i Trust not yourself; hut, your defects to .know, Make uge of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dangerous tiling ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain;.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 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...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 heights of arts,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 308 pages
...cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not yourself; but, your defects to Knowr, Make use of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. A little...spring: • There shallow draughts intoxicate the hrain; And drinking largely sobers us again. S. Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, ;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 258 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...ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; w8k d««P> <w taste not th« Pierian, spring t There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain » And... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...icnow', Make use ofcv'ry friend' — and ev'ry foe*. A little learning fs a dangerous thing* ; Drink deep', or taste not the Pierian spring There shallow...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 heights of arts*... | |
 | Charles Caldwell - 1828 - 322 pages
...force, the truth of the well known lines of the poet ; ' A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain ; But drinking deeply sobers it again.' Should genius bestow on you any of its mighty and perdurable... | |
 | Charles Caldwell - 1828 - 318 pages
...force, the truth of the well known lines of the poet ; ' A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. There shallow draughts intoxicate the hrain ; But drinking deeply sobers it again.' Should genius bestow on you any of its mighty and perdurable... | |
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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. 
