 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 420 pages
...have nothing to swallow more nauseous than the words of a modern opera. (109 THE PROJECTOR. N° 77. " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." MILTON. December 1807. .T OR some weeks past I have had reason to be alarmed... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...rove Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, That, not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but, to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom : What is more, is fume. 196—224. PARADISE LOST. BOOK vm. Or emptiness, or fond... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...Unchecked, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, 190 That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure,...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom ; « hat is more, is fume, O, emptiness, or fond impertinence, 195 And renders... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she Irani, That not to know at Urge !>ill, Nor faulters in th' extended vale below : Their garments loosely waving in the wind, And al Is the prime wisdom : what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence : And renders us, in... | |
 | 1837 - 604 pages
...darkened, but 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 296 pages
...[vain. Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, That, not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...the door in my face, and the emphatical utterance of the interjection "Bah!" WHAT LIFE TO CHOOSE.' " Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom." Paradise Lost. " WHEN 1 look round upon the material world," says a Pagan writer,... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pages
...door in my face, and the emphatical utterance' of the interjection " Bah !" 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 iu daily life, Is the prime wisdom." Paradist last. " WHEN I look round upon the material world," says... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...more extensively useful, because they are more intimately connected with the business oflife. " " For not to know at large of things remote From use obscure...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... | |
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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... 
