...ignorance. .• Byron's Manfred, a. 2, s. 4. Knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temp'rance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may...else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 7. Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but...

...is left besides to search and know. 125 But knowledge is as food, and needs no lese Her temp'rance over appetite, to -know In measure what the mind may...contain ; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Avisdom to folly', as nourishment to wind. 130 « Know then, that after Lucifer from heaven (So call...

...syllable of a word ending with a vowel, « lu'ua vowel begins the following word. As, ' Knowledge — Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.' "'Milton (adds Dr. Johnson) therefore seems to have mistaken the nature of our language, of which the...

...the last syllable of a word ending with a vowel, when a vowel begins the following word. As Knowledge Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. This licence, though now disused in English poetry, was practised by our old writers, and is allowed...

...in night ; To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know. 125 But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance...soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. 130 Know then, that, after Lucifer from Heaven (So call him, brighter once amidst the host Of Angels...

...invisible King, Only Omniscient, hath supprcss'd in night ; To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know. But knowledge...less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure wluit the mind m;iy well contain ; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as...

...Earth or Heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know. 125 But knowledge is as food, and'needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure...Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom tq folly, as nourishment to wind. 130 Know then, that, after Lucifer from Heaven (So call him, brighter...

...Ver. 322. who reads Incessantly, &c.] See the same just sentiment in Paradise Lost, B. vii. 126. " Knowledge is as food, and needs no less " Her temperance over appetite, &c." THYER. Ver. 327. Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself,] Milton would, I conceive, thus...

...invisible King, Only Omniscient, hath suppressed in night ; To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know. But knowledge...contain ; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns 12!) Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. Know then, that, after Lucifer from Heaven (So call him,...

...omniscient, hath suppress'd in night, To none communicahle in earth or heaven : Enough is left hesides to search and know. But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temp'rance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain : Oppresses else with surfeit,...