 | John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...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, and soon turns V\ isdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. Know then, that after Lucifer from Heav'n (So call him,... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...night; To none coiamunieable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know. f But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the .miml'may well contain;; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom... | |
 | John Milton - 1817 - 214 pages
...in night ; To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know. 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...capacity.] " But Knowlege is as food, and needs no lesa " Her Temperance over appetite, to know " In measure what the mind may well contain ; • " Oppresses...else with surfeit, and soon turns " Wisdom to folly, at nourishment to wind." Par. Lost. VII. 126. law or prescription, wholly to the demeanour of every... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...in night ; To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know. But Alter these, But on the hither side, a different sort [seat, From the h know In measure what the mind may well contain ; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...suppress'd in night; To none communicable in earth or heaven: Enough is left besides to search and know. 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... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...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 well contain ; Oppresses...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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 well 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 312 pages
...and know. 125 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 tq folly, as nourishment to wind. 130 Know then, that, after Lucifer from Heaven (So call him, brighter... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
