| English literature - 1837 - 604 pages
...mentally illuminated Milton written : — " Not to know at large of things remote From use and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom." It should ever be borne in mind, that success in life is not regarded by the wise man as an... | |
| Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 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 : And renders us, in things that... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 296 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 prune wisdom. What is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence : And renders us, in things... | |
| Lady Morgan (Sydney) - Irish fiction - 1823 - 380 pages
...feelings, and the disappointed emotions of a too-exquisite and unhappy sensibility. CBAF. XXXIV. " To know " That which before us lies in daily life " Is the prime wisdom." MILTON. " I've ta'en too little care of this." SHAKESPEARE. NEVER had the inclinations of... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote, From u^e 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, 195 And renders us in things that... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...folly. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 7. 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, And renders us in things that most... | |
| Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...with the business oflife. " " For 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." If it be desirable to encourage men to cultivate their minds, and to open to them the fountains... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...soft with the smooth air along, Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid, Leave them to God above. 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. Joy thou In what he gives to thee,... | |
| Horace Smith - Wit and humor - 1825 - 348 pages
...Mutton." WHAT LIFE TO CHOOSE. " 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 >Ij,nt. " WHEN I look round upon the material world," says a Pagan writer, " and... | |
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