{"id":1372,"date":"2023-06-20T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T09:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/20\/a-little-learning\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T09:50:10","slug":"a-little-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/06\/20\/a-little-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Alexander Pope<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

A little learning is a dangerous thing ;<\/span>
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :<\/span>
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,<\/span>
And drinking largely sobers us again.<\/span>
Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts,<\/span>
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts ;<\/span>
While from the bounded level of our mind<\/span>
Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind,<\/span>
But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise<\/span>
New distant scenes of endless science rise !<\/span>
So pleased at first the towering Alps we try,<\/span>
Mount o\u2019er the vales, and seem to tread the sky ;<\/span>
The eternal snows appear already past,<\/span>
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last ;<\/span>
But those attained, we tremble to survey<\/span>
The growing labours of the lengthened way ;<\/span>
The increasing prospect tires our wandering eyes,<\/span>
Hills peep o\u2019er hills, and Alps on Alps arise !<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alexander Pope A little learning is a dangerous thing ;Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring :There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,And drinking largely sobers us again.Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts,In fearless youth we tempt the heights of Arts ;While from the bounded level of our mindShort views we take, … Continue reading “A Little Learning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-of-the-mind","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}