 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...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 wo tempt the heights of arts, 3... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Biography - 1841 - 494 pages
...on Criticism : " — " 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." — EDIT. II. He desires to imitate the ancient Fathers, as well in their piety, as in their postures.... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - Biography - 1841 - 496 pages
...on Criticism : "— " 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,"—EDIT. II. He desires to imitate the ancient Fathers, as well in their piety, as in their... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Theology - 1842 - 520 pages
...the poet's advice : " 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." Nor is pedantry peculiar to those only, who begin to read and study late in life ; for it is too often... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 530 pages
...the poet's advice : " 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." Nor is pedantry peculiar to those only, who begin to read and study late in life ; for it is too often... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1844 - 602 pages
...bulh true and important : A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,...the mark of a shallow, prejudiced mind, to reject everything as false because it does not agree with its own prepossessions, and to embrace everything,... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...friend, and every foe. A little learning3 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... | |
 | Minister and co, ltd - 1875 - 458 pages
...its several points. The succeeding lines of the poet, " Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian sprirg; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again," would seem to- point to the latter interpretation, and we have no hesitation in stating that, in our... | |
 | Thomas Stokes - 1847 - 94 pages
...xvii. 28.) • , •" A little knowledge is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." ',*; ii ,. , • . ч- • THE TABLE OF THE LORD \' „'".'-. y 'ilTü Is emblematical of the crucified... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...in the French z2 A little learn/ IK/ is a dang'rous thing ; 215 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, 220... | |
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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. 
