| John Milton - 1785 - 698 páginas
...PAR AD. LB viii. 19). — — Not, to tnovv at large of things remote From ufe, obfcure or fubtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wifdom : what is more is fame, Or emptincfs, or fond impertinence ; And renders us in things that moil... | |
| Juvenal, Martin Madan - 1789 - 552 páginas
...inflruc(or — ie who are inftruded by what they meet with in common. Jiff, and profit by daily experience. To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wifdom. MILTON. 2j. Wkat day, ^3c.~\ Fefta dies, figniftcs a day fct apart for {hooblervance offome... | |
| John Milton - 1789 - 278 páginas
...experience taught, ftie [earn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote From ufe, obfcure and mbtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the pr::ae wifdora : what is more, is fume, In goodnefs and .in pow'r pre eminent ; Tell me, how may I... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 278 páginas
...experience taught, fhe learn, ig» That not to know at large of things remote From ufe, obfcure and fubtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wifdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptinefs, or fond impertinence, 195 And renders us in things that... | |
| George Chalmers - 1794 - 482 páginas
...EXPERIENCE taught, {he learn, That not to know at large of things remote From ufe, obfcufe, and fubtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime ivifjvm ; what is more, is fume, Or emptinefs, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things, that... | |
| George Chalmers - 1794 - 468 páginas
...EXPERIENCE taught, flic learn, That not to know at large of things remote From ufe, obfcure, and-fubtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the frimt ivifiiom ; what is more, is fume, Or cmptincfs, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things,... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 282 páginas
...rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she lenrn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote From use,...That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdoiri ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 338 páginas
...experience taught, me karn, 190 That not to know^t large of things remote From ufe, obfcure and fubtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wifdom : what is more, is fume, Or emptinefs, or fond impertinence, 195 And renders us in things that... | |
| 1808 - 704 páginas
...account. The result in this respect strongly exemplified the truth of Milton's observation : Tint, not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life ]s the prime wisdom. At his house in High streer, Mary-lebone, in his 71st year, silcifaiiiia' Dalrymple,... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 páginas
...with wand'ring thoughts, and notions vain ! But apt the mind or fancy is to rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught,...learn, That not to know at large of things remote 191 From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime... | |
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