 | Alfred Nevin - 1858 - 360 ページ
...the poet's sentiments : "A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or tasto not the Pierian spring : — There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." To express the same general sentiment in the words of inspiration itself; professing themselves wise,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 ページ
...friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing 1 Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts 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,... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 ページ
...friend — and every foe. 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. Fired at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While... | |
 | 1858 - 402 ページ
...meant, when he wrote: " A little learning ii a daugerotu thing, Drink deep or taete not the Pierian Spring, There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." All superficiality has a direct and manifest tendency towards indifference if not towards atheism ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 ページ
...friend — and every foe. 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. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 ページ
...friend — and every foe. 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. Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts, While,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 ページ
...friend — and every foe. 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. Fired at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the height of arts, 22C... | |
 | William Moore Wooler - 1860 - 548 ページ
...well-known lines : — "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." Who has not experienced that peculiar — indescribable feeling which accompanies the process of intense... | |
 | Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 ページ
...distress'd.' — Coioper. (c) ' 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.' — Pope. (d) ' I never in my life Did hear a challenge urged more modestly.' Shakspeare. OIK.— In... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 ページ
...friend—and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous tlung! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts 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,... | |
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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. 
