 But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.  The New Monthly Magazine - Seite 2691853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 Seiten
...invisible King, Only omniscient, hath suppress'd in night, To none communicable in earth or heaven: Enough is left besides to search and know; But knowledge...soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. " Know then, that, after Lucifer from heaven (So call him, brighter once amidst the host Of angels,... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 Seiten
...The multiplication of knowledge does not remedy the interior evil. Knowledge, no doubt, is good ; " But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance...appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contam. Oppressed else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind." The mind,... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 Seiten
...iu night; To none communicable in earth or heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know. Knt knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite , to know In measure wlrat the'mind may well contain; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly , as nourishment... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1853 - 518 Seiten
...angel mild," who taught our first father that there are problems insoluble by such as In • — " suppress'd in night, to none communicable in earth...well contain ; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turne Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. TRAVELS IN THE NORTH.» THERE is one portion of Europe... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 374 Seiten
...invisible King, Only Omniscient, hath suppress'*! in night ; To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know. But knowledge...soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. Know, then* that after Lucifer from heaven (So call him, brighter once amidst the host Of angels, than... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 Seiten
...invisible King, Only omniscient, hath suppress'd in night, To none communicable in earth or heaven: Enough is left besides to search and know ; But knowledge...soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. "Know then, that, after Lucifer from heaven (So call him, brighter once amidst the host Of angels,... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 Seiten
...invisible King, Only Omniscient, hath suppress'd in night ; To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know. But knowledge...soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. Know, then, that after Lucifer from heaven (So call him, brighter once amidst the host Of angels, than... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...Aleyn. He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity. Shakspeare. KNOWLEDGE. Knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance...else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly. Milton. Base minded they that want intelligent).*, For God himself for wisdom most is praised, And... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 706 Seiten
...gladly have seen it without the first forty lines, and beginning, The affable archangel. SoiMcy. Dut knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite. He might have ended here : he goes on thus : To know In measure what the mind may well contain. Even... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 Seiten
...Milton's "god-like angel mild," who taught our first father that there are problems insoluble by such ¡IB # R j ԮGs P 1 b | / s ȯ ZP -sx _y ; { f ^... 9\ bQ 5 jvȠD g y a iZ b 2 |^ % ! ~ N J bq i From the Briiiih Quarterly Review. LUDWIG TIECK.* IT is well known that the literature of the Germans... | |
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