 | Roger Shattuck - Knowledge, Theory of, in literature - 1997 - 388 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; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. . . . (VIII, 1B6-95) "Wandering,"... | |
 | Joseph E. Duncan - Religion - 1972 - 349 pages
...o're the Sphere" (VIII, 80-83). Dismissing things remote, obscure, and subtle, Adam concludes that, to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom, what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most... | |
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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... 
