{"id":1058,"date":"2014-09-03T10:43:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T14:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2014-09-03T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T14:43:37","slug":"alexander-pope-a-little-learning-is-a-dangrous-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2014\/1058\/poems\/alexander-pope-a-little-learning-is-a-dangrous-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Pope: A little learning is a dang&#8217;rous thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A little Learning is a dang&#8217;rous Thing;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And drinking largely sobers us again.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fir&#8217;d at first Sight with what the Muse imparts,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In fearless Youth we tempt the Heights of Arts,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While from the bounded Level of our Mind,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Short Views we take, nor see the lengths behind,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But more advanc&#8217;d, behold with strange Surprize<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">New, distant Scenes of endless Science rise!<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So pleas&#8217;d at first, the towring Alps we try,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mount o&#8217;er the Vales, and seem to tread the Sky;<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Th&#8217; Eternal Snows appear already past,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And the first Clouds and Mountains seem the last:<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">But those attain&#8217;d, we tremble to survey<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The growing Labours of the lengthen&#8217;d Way,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Th&#8217; increasing Prospect tires our wandering Eyes,<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hills peep o&#8217;er Hills, and Alps on Alps arise!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-From <em>An Essay on Criticism<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little Learning is a dang&#8217;rous Thing;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring:There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain,And drinking largely sobers us again.Fir&#8217;d at first Sight with what the Muse imparts,In fearless Youth we tempt the Heights of Arts,While from the bounded Level of our Mind,Short Views we take, nor see the lengths behind,But <a href='https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2014\/1058\/poems\/alexander-pope-a-little-learning-is-a-dangrous-thing\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[258],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems","category-quotes","tag-the-endless-horizon-of-education","category-4-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}