 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 430 pages
...and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, me learn, 190 That not to know ^t large of things remote From ufe, obfcure and fubtle,...daily life, Is the prime wifdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptinefs, or fond impertinence, ijj And renders us in things that moft concern Unpraftis'd,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 316 pages
...to rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, fte learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote From ufe,...That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wifdonj ; what is more, is fume, Or emptinefs, or fond impertinence, 155 And renders us in things that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 276 pages
...warn'd, or by experience taught, fhe learn, 199. That not to know at large of things remote From ufc, obfcure and fubtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wifdora ; what is more, is fume, Or emptinefs, or fond impertinence, 1j5 And renders us in things that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 890 pages
...rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, fhe learn, 19» That not to know at large of things remote From ufe, obfcure and fubtle, hut to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wifdora ; what is more, is fume,... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1785 - 698 pages
...fubjeft, 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 concern UnpracticM, unprepared,... | |
 | Natural history - 1785 - 552 pages
...is to rove Unchecked, and of her roving is no end ; "Till warn'd, or by experience taught fhc learn, That not to know at large of things remote From ufe, obfcure and fubtle, but to know * On Inconfiftency of Expectation in Literary Purfuits; Moral and Literary Differtations, page 183.... | |
 | John Milton - 1789 - 278 pages
...torovd Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by 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... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 278 pages
...to rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, me learn, Jg« That not to know at large of things remote 'From ufe,...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, ~\s•>S!•s. r>rime wifdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emprinefs, or fond impertinence, ip3 ^gd;... | |
 | George Chalmers - 1794 - 482 pages
...warn'd, or by 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 - Great Britain - 1794 - 468 pages
...to rove, Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end, Till warn'd, or by 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,... | |
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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... 
