...material, — Wisdom add to this Wisdom, the sole artificer of bliss. Young. Satire vi. But knowledge is a food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite,...soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. Till smooth'd and squared and fitted to its place, Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. 95 Knowledge...

...addition to the lever by which vice dissolves the fabric of society. —History of Europe. ALISON. KNOWLEDGE is as food, and needs no less Her temperance...else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly. MILTON. FREE TRADE. WHAT a solemn humbug this modern political economy is! You talk about making this...

...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...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...

...further knowledge about the creation of the world, Raphael agrees to tell him, but only after a warning : "But Knowledge is as food, and needs no less / Her...know / In measure what the mind may well contain" (7. 126-28). This emphasis on temperance has led Edwin Greenlaw to contend that temperance is the true...

...material end of the monist continuum strive, like food itself, toward a higher state of application: But Knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her Temperance...soon turns Wisdom to Folly, as Nourishment to Wind. (7.126-130) When man and angel speak over their meal, they enact this trope, including its moral lesson....

...epilogue of the creation story proper. "Be lowly wise," the angel cautions an overly curious Adam, "Knowledge is as food, and needs no less / Her Temperance over Appetite" (VII. 126-27). Warnings about the limits of knowledge may reflect Milton's anxiety about the accessibility...

...syllable of a word ending with a vowel, when a vowel begins the following words; as, Knowledge — Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment, to wind. [VH, 129-30] This licence, though now disused in English poetry, was practiced by our old writers,...

...themselves grows amiss or tends toward "wild." One such danger is an inclination to speculative rationalism: Knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her Temperance...soon turns Wisdom to Folly, as Nourishment to Wind. (8.126-30) Reason is not disparaged but seen for what it is: a potentially despotic power whose role...

...and fill his belly with the east wind? Job 15.2 IN book 7 of Paradise Lost Raphael warns Adam that Knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her Temperance...soon turns Wisdom to Folly, as Nourishment to Wind. (7.126-30)' The second edition of the OED defines this sense of the word wind as "'air' or gas in the...

...digestion that depends on the ancient topos linking the reception of food with the ingestion of ideas: But Knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her Temperance...what the mind may well contain, Oppresses else with Surfet, and soon turns Wisdom to Folly, as Nourishment to Winde.18 Remarkably, intestinal gas is neither...