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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... "
Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 67
by John Milton - 1750
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Milton and Scriptural Tradition: The Bible Into Poetry

James H. Sims, Leland Ryken - Bible - 1984 - 232 pages
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A Teacher's Treasury of Quotations

Education - 1985 - 392 pages
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The Hamlet Vocation of Coleridge and Wordsworth

Martin Greenberg - English poetry - 1986 - 232 pages
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Milton, Poet of Exile

Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...experience taught, she learn That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and suttle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom . . . [8.188-94] Adam is recognizing here the inherent, created tendency of the "Fancie" which...
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Analyse stylistique du Paradis perdu de John Milton: l ..., Volume 1, Issue 2

Gilles Mathis - English language - 1987 - 244 pages
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The Moral Picturesque: Studies in Hawthorne's Fiction

Darrel Abel - Didactic fiction, American - 1988 - 344 pages
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Remembering and Repeating: Biblical Creation in Paradise Lost

Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...experience taught, she learn 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; (VIII. 188-94) This lesson in usefulness is what many have seized on as the definitive statement...
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The Moral Picturesque: Studies in Hawthorne's Fiction

Darrel Abel - Didactic fiction, American - 1988 - 348 pages
...content with "useful" knowledge: Nut 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. (PL 8.191-94.) Pope, in the Essay on Man reduced the same idea to a platitude in pointing out...
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Paradise Lost: Ideal and Tragic Epic

Francis C. Blessington - Epic poetry, English - 1988 - 168 pages
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Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

Harold Bloom - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 176 pages
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