A LITTLE LEARNING.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: ... These shallow draughts intoxicate the And drinking largely sobers us again. Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, While from the bounded level of our mind. Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise, New distant scenes of endless science rise! So pleased at first the towering Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, The eternal snows appear already past. And the first clouds and mountains seem the last But those attained, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthened way. The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes. Hills peer o’er hills, and Alps on Alps arise! —A. POPE. (Essay on Criticism.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17190, 6 November 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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147A LITTLE LEARNING. Star (Christchurch), Issue 17190, 6 November 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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