 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 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... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...knovr , Make use of ev'ry friend— —and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :' There shallow...Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts , In fearlessyouth we tempt the heights of arts, While, from the bounded level of our mind, Short views... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...And drinking largely fobers us aepin. Fir'd at firll fight, with what the Mule imparts, In fearlefs youth we tempt the heights of Arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor fee the lengths behind ; But, moreadvanc'd, behold with ftrange furprife... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...to know, Make use of ev'iy friend — and ev'ry .foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow...heights. of Arts, While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind. But more advanced, behold with strange surprize... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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...heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...to know, Make use of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. A little learning is и dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow...largely sobers us again, Fir'd at first sight with «hat the Muse imparts, In fearless yonth we tempt the heights of arts, While Лот the bounded level... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 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... | |
 | David Simpson - Apologetics - 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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...to know, Make use ofev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thinfr, Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow...heights of arts. While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; liut more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise... | |
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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. 
