 | Mr. Harrison (Ralph) - 1812 - 118 pages
...spite of trivial faults, is due. Pope's Ess. on Crit. 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. Pope on Crit. See from the brake, the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense : 210 If once 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...know, • • Make use of ev'ry friend, and ev'ry foe. A Httle'leaining is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow...intoxicate the brain ^ And drinking largely sobers as again. Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the height of... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 426 pages
...into our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. If once right Reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust...every foe. , , A little learning is a dangerous thing j Drink deep, or taste not the Pierean Spring i Their shallow draughts intoxicate the brain ; . . And... | |
 | Increase Cooke - 1819 - 490 pages
...into our defence^ And fills up all the mighty void of sense. If once right Reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust...yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend—and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierean... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...drives that eloud away, Truth hreaks upon ua with resistless day. Trust nut yoorself; hut, yoor defeets to know Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste nut the Pierian spring ; There shallow draughts intoxicate the hrain, And drinking... | |
 | 1820 - 438 pages
...it reasonable in them to be directed by Mr. Pope's opinion, in his excellent essay on criticism. " Trust not yourself ; but your defects to know, Make use of every friend and every foe." But I find the pleasure of talking to a friend I so much value, has led me further than I intended... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. If once 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 /earning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense : If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. ,Trust...yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of every friend—and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 2. If once 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. There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers... | |
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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. 
