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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... "
The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register - Page 76
1808
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Milton and Ecology

Ken Hiltner - 2003 - 182 pages
...mind obedient and in place" [emphasis added]. Berry next quotes from Raphael's instruction to Adam "not to know at large of things remote / From use, obscure and suttle, but to know / That which before us lies in daily life" (8.191—93). Berry's point is clear:...
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Utopia & Revolution: On the Origins of a Metaphor

Melvin Jonah Lasky - 752 pages
...roave Uncheck'd, and of her roaving is no end, Till, warn'd, or by experience taught, she learne 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, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. It was in this sense...
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Genetics and the Logic of Evolution

Kenneth M. Weiss, Anne V. Buchanan - 2004 - 560 pages
...rove Unchecked, and of her roving is no end; Till warned, 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, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence; And renders us, in...
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Paradise Lost: A Student's Companion to the Poem

Francis Blessington - 2004 - 161 pages
...is to rove Uncheckt, 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, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things...
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Emerson, Romanticism, and Intuitive Reason: The Transatlantic "light of All ...

Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 555 pages
...rove, Unchecked, and of her roving is no end; Till warned, 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, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. Empty fume, inhaled,...
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