 | Alexander Pope - 1822
...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 ,' .... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 436 lehte
...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... | |
 | 1822
...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 - 1822 - 304 lehte
...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 - 80 lehte
...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 M'Dermot - 1823 - 408 lehte
...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 - 822 lehte
...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 - 1824
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...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... | |
 | Richard Carlile - 1824
...occasion of my saying, " A little learning is a dangerous thing," To which I will now subjoin, " Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow...the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." POPE. Mr. Locke says, " There are not so many men in errors, and uTong opinions, as is commonly supposed.... | |
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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. 
