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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce - Page 10
by Alexander Pope - 1863
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...to know, Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous tiling ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow...intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. l-'ii't) at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts,...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again. Fh-'d at first sight with what the muse impartsi la fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While, from the bounded lever of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with...
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The Literary Panorama, Volume 4

1808 - 742 pages
...limits fit: — ' A little learning is a dangerous tiling, Drink deep or taste not the PicrUn sprint;, There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. J rpma'm, Mr. Editor, your obliged and .humble servant, I'. RAGAVIAH CHARY. Srrinaapatam, 98th March,...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...to know, Make use uf ev'ry friend — ar.d ev'ry foe. A litllf learning is a dang'rous thing ; Drink air spoken iniparu, In fearless youth we tempt the heights or Arts, While from tile bounded level of our mind...
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A Plea for Religion and the Sacred Writings: Addressed to the Disciples of ...

David Simpson - 1809 - 410 pages
...great moral poet too, will teach us the same lesson : " A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, But drinking largely sobers us again."(5) What then if Paine, who is both illiterate and immoral, insolent...
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Poems

Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...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: there shallow...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...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...to know, Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning it a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring; There shallow...sobers us again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Mi,-.- imparts, 019 In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts, While, from the bounded level of...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or lasts not the Pierian spring ; There shallow draughts intoxicate...again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, 219 In fcarle-s youth we tempt the heigbts of Arts, While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 pages
...to know, Make use of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. 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, Tir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, GhapS. While, from the bounded level of our mind,...
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Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, Issues 77-79

Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...to know, make use of ev'ry friend— and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thing; 215 iMnk deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow...intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again. frVd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, in fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220...
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