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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 ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us, in things that most concern,... "
The Retrospective Review - Page 213
1820
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

English poetry - 1776 - 478 pages
...of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom; what is more, is fume Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, F llj And renders us in things that most concern Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. Therefore...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...things remote 191 From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom : what is more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, 195 VOL. n. c And renders us in things that most concern Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek....
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom ; what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, I95 And renders us in things that most concern Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. Therefore...
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The Medical Repository, Volume 1

Medicine - 1804 - 462 pages
...of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom ; what is more, is fume Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. MILTON. Second Hexade. Vol. I." IN CONFORMITY to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled,...
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The Theory of Dreams: In which an Inquiry is Made Into the Powers and ...

Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 362 pages
...of things remote Tram we, obtcve and subtle, bat lo k»ow "1 hat which before as lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom, what is more is fume Or emptiness, or fond impertinence. And renders us in things that most concern, Unpractb'd, unprepar'd, and atill to seek *." Dreams are...
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The Theory of Dreams: In which an Inquiry is Made Into the Powers ..., Volume 2

Robert Gray - Dreams - 1808 - 170 pages
...of thiugs remote From nse, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life. Is the prime wisdom, what is more is fume Or emptiness, or fond impertinence , And renders us in things that most concern, Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek *." . Dreams...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...of things remote From use, obscure and subtle; but, to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom: What is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence: And renders us, in things that most concern, Unpractised, unprepar'd, and still to seek. Therefore...
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Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ...

Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pages
...things remote From «se, obscnre and subtle ; but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom : what is more is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence ; And renders us in things that most concern, Unpractia'd, unprcpai'd, and still to seek. MllTOU. THE...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom: what is more, is fume, Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, 195 And renders us, in things that most concern, Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. Therefore...
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The Analectic Magazine, Volume 5

1815 - 558 pages
...of things remote From use, obscure, and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom ; what is more, is fume Or emptiness, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that most concern, Unpractised, unprepared, and still to seek. SPIRIT OF MAGAZINES,...
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