 | Juvenal - 1839 - 570 էջ
...of the yoke by tossing their heads about. M. cf. vi. 208, note. R. ЯасЬ. Fers. 199 eqq. Vita. " To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom ;" Milton. M. Magittra ; Ov. Her. xv. 83. (H.) R. 23. - What day is not profaned by bringing to light... | |
 | Juvenal - 1839 - 354 էջ
...; г. е. who are instructed by what they meet with in common life, and profit by daily experience. To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom. MILTON. 23. What day, ¿fc.] Festa dies signifies a day set apart for the observance of some festival,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 էջ
...was new, He only from their cause their natures knew. Denham. Not to Алого of things remote, but know That which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom. ЛЫмм. . hese are resolved into a confessed ignorance, and I shall not pursue them to their old... | |
 | Lady - 1840 - 404 էջ
...COURT: BIRMINGHAM : PRINTED BY THOMAS EVANS, COLMORE K01V. i 21..LI ' "' >. r (.''• } -: PREFACE. " But to know That which before us lies in daily life ; Is the prime wisdom." MILTON. THE Author of the following pages has been encouraged to hope, that, in placing them, after... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 էջ
...the mind, or fancy, is to rove " Uncheck'd, and of her roving is no end ; 190 " Till, waru'd, or by experience taught, she learn, " That not to know at...life, " Is the prime wisdom : what is more, is fume, 195 " Or emptiness, or fond impertinence ; " And renders us, in things that most concern, " Unpractis'd,... | |
 | 1860 - 722 էջ
...Unchecked, and of her roving is no end, Till warned, or by experience taught, she learn That, not to know nt large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle ; but to know That which lies before us in daily life Is the prime wisdom. What is more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 էջ
...But apte the Mind or Fancie is to roave Uncheckt, and of her roaving is no end; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and suttle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom . . . [8.188-94] Adam... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 էջ
...wise." But apt the Mind or Fancy is to rove Uncheckt, and of her roving is no end; Till warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn That not to know at large...before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wisdom; (VIII. 188-94) This lesson in usefulness is what many have seized on as the definitive statement of... | |
 | Darrel Abel - 1988 - 348 էջ
...comprehend, and which points out the pragmatic wisdom of being content with "useful" knowledge: Nut to know at large of things remote From use, obscure...before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom. (PL 8.191-94.) Pope, in the Essay on Man reduced the same idea to a platitude in pointing out that... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 1992 - 628 էջ
...ideas of modern culture, an idea which was given a terse formulation by the greatest of Puritan poets: To know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom.45 But there were obviously other strands of Protestantism, such as the different Continental... | |
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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... 
