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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. "
The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with a life, by A. Dyce - Page 10
by Alexander Pope - 1863
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...friend and ev'ry foe. A little learning is- a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Ifterian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. POPE. The Country Ale-house. Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high, Where, once, the sign-post...
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The English Reader; Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1811 - 286 pages
...And drinking largely fobers'us again. Fir'd at firft fight with what the mufe imparts, In fearlefs youth we tempt the heights of arts, While, from the bounded level of our Short views we take, nor fee the lengths behind'; But, more advanc'd behold, with ftrange furprife,....
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections, Additions ...

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 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 Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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, 200 While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But...
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Poetica de Horatio e o Ensaio sobre a Critica de A. Pope. Em Portuguez. Por ...

Horace - 1812 - 198 pages
...nossos deffeitos Consultemos amigos, e enimigos. A little learning is a dang'rous thing ; 215 Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow...again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, ]n fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220 While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short...
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Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ...

Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...to this passage when he penned the well-known lines: 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. that he can thoroughly believe it, for none deny that there is a God, but those for whom it maketh...
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Rudiments of English Grammar: Containing, I. The Different Kinds, Relations ...

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...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1812 - 378 pages
...defects 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 draughts intoxicate the brain ; X 2 And drinking largely sobers us again. Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, While,...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pages
...spring : There shallow draughts intoxieate the brain ; And drinking largely sobers us again. Kir'il at first sight with what the muse imparts* In fearless...of arts, While, from the bounded level of our mind, Bhort views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But, more advane'd behold, with strange surprise,...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

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...
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