 | Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 pages
...resistless day. Trust not yourself ; but, your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend->-and ev'ry foe. 3. Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of aits, While, fromthe bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...So in tb' ear'a labyrinth the roice doth stray, And doth with easy motion tonch the brain. tiaciti. Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts In fearless youth we tempt the height of arts While from the bounded level uf our mind * Short views we take, nor see the lengths... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...great alterations in his enchanting poem. Some s 2 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...and great alterations in his enchanting poem. Some 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 ,' .... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...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 spring: There shallow...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 pages
...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 us again. 3. Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts,... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. " A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow...intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. " Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. In ev'ry... | |
 | Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot - 1823 - 434 pages
...our little circle of information is mingled with error. 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. If, then, the elements of beauty or ugliness, in any object,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...to know, Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing! Drink im as the borrow'd eee the lengths behind ; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surpris« New distant scenes ofendiese... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 pages
...Dennis. Some faults in this Essay, which Dennis detected, Pope had the good sense to correct. Bowles. There, shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And...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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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. 
