 | British poets - 1822 - 296 páginas
...apt the mind or fancy is to rove [vain. Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, That, not to know at...know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prune wisdom. What is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence : And renders us, in things... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 páginas
...the door in my face, and the emphatical utterance of the interjection "Bah!" WHAT LIFE TO CHOOSE.' " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." Paradise Lost. " WHEN 1 look round upon the material world," says a Pagan writer, " and observe the... | |
 | 1823 - 592 páginas
...door in my face, and the emphatical utterance' of the interjection " Bah !" WHAT LIFE TO CHOOSE. " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...and subtle . but to know That which before us lies iu daily life, Is the prime wisdom." Paradist last. " WHEN I look round upon the material world," says... | |
 | Lady Morgan (Sydney) - 1823 - 380 páginas
...feelings, and the disappointed emotions of a too-exquisite and unhappy sensibility. CBAF. XXXIV. " To know " That which before us lies in daily life " Is the prime wisdom." MILTON. " I've ta'en too little care of this." SHAKESPEARE. NEVER had the inclinations of Imogen pointed... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 páginas
...wam'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote, From u^e obscure and subtle, but to know That which before...more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, 195 And renders us in things that most concern Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. Therefore... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 páginas
...more extensively useful, because they are more intimately connected with the business oflife. " " For not to know at large of things remote From use obscure...before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." If it be desirable to encourage men to cultivate their minds, and to open to them the fountains of... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 580 páginas
...rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote From use,...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, 173. be lowly wise .•] Noli 193. That which before us lies altum sapere. Hume. in daily life,] Shadowed... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 572 páginas
...rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote From use,...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, 173. be lowly wise :] Noli 193. That which before us lies altum sapere. Hume. in daily life,] Shadowed... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1825 - 352 páginas
...the dinner, being expressly confined to the " Memoirs of a Haunch of Mutton.'" WHAT LIFE TO CHOOSE. " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." Paradise Lost. " WHEN I look round upon the material world," says a Pagan writer, " and observe the... | |
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That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom... 
