 | 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... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz, Schwartz Regina M. - 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... | |
 | 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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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... 
