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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. "
The Philomathesian - Page 275
1834 - 380 pages
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The British Poets, Volume 2

1866 - 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 draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. Fir'd at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Newton be! and all was light. 8874 An Essay on Criticism A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink MADISON lames 1751-1836 6879 The Federalist Liberty is to factlon And drinking largely sobers us again. 8875 An Essay on Criticism Whoever thinks a faultless piece to...
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The Blinkards, a Comedy: And, the Anglo-Fanti, a Short Story

Kobina Sekyi - 1997 - 292 pages
...social pretensions. As Alexander Pope once put it, 'A little learning is a dangerous thing, / Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring. / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain ..." This was the class of Anglo-Africans Sekyi regarded with a mixture of pity and contempt, and whom...
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Selected Poetry

Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...defects to know, Make use of every friend—and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thinir; 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...
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Getting it Right: Avoiding the High Cost of Wrong Decisions

Deborah C. Sawyer - 1998 - 234 pages
...1998, p. A3. Information: The Key to Better Decisions "A little learning is a dangerous thing Drink deep or taste not the Pierian Spring There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain While drinking largely sobers us again." Alexander Pope, 1711 The word "information" has become such...
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Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy

Henry H. Bauer - 1999 - 372 pages
...pseudo-scientist. He illustrates what Pope was talking about [322]: A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again. To my own satisfaction, then, I have concluded that Velikovsky's...
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A Darker Place: A Novel

Laurie R. King - 2009 - 512 pages
...demanded, impatient at her apparent non sequitur. " '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.' That is," she added, "supposing you were referring to Alexander...
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High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places

David Breashears - 2000 - 340 pages
...Sumiyo, Wongchu, Jangbu, Paula, Liz, Audrey, and Brad 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. —Alexander Pope >•*•*' Camp I • 19,500ft. David Breashears's...
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The Origins of English Words: A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 pages
...last and latest, superlatives of late, see leid I. ) 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, Essay on Criticism All that is, at all, Lasts ever,...
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Measuring the Performance and Intelligence of Systems: Proceedings of the ...

Alex Meystel, E. R. Messina - 2001 - 688 pages
...Intelligent Systems. AHP, Robot Groups 1. Introduction 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. Alexander Pope The brain is the most overrated organ. Woody Allen...
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