...ignorance. This should teach us to take the poet's advice : " A little learning is a dangerous thing : Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. There shallow...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...

...teach us to take the poet's advice : " A little learning ia a dangerous thing : Drink deep, or taate 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...

...both true and important. A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierean spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. He who would read profitably, must read with an humble and teachable mind, and be ready to embrace...

...defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend-and ev'ry foe. A Hull' 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. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts, While...

...Hence the poet's advice is bulh true and important : 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. He who would read profitably must read with an humble and teachable mind, and be ready to embrace truth,...

...treated, has never been more felt than at this moment. — ' A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. But drinking deeply sobers us again.' We might further illustrate the truth of our remarks, by calling...

...assume in ignorance the part of the country squire : " A little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring ; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain." I do not assert that a knowledge of military tactics, or of law, is inconsistent with agriculture....

...defects to know, Make use of every friend, and every foe. A little learning3 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...

...have been caught from a celebrated couplet of Pope : " A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring ; There, shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, But drinking deeper sobers us again." One would like to know what extent of acquired knowledge would...

...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...