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my-pierian-spring
My Pierian Spring65944d3e0fef23f984dd3eebbc69d454dc6492cfe10833c389ae1102a6ac31fddf7153f43edbadd5e05b602c1570adc400000000000000000000000002024-05-09T18:38:32.344Z2024-05-09T18:38:32.344Z4672eb5d5ddee3e9a09bc659* [On Criticism](/an-essay-on-criticism)0000000000000000000000006cb47ea2a2deb3bb6b43649c328af1c0f0cb67e29f9caf8c00> A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.000000000000000000000000d7e604485a51e2730d0bd4e983afc25a4cd49486dcd3886200But you who seek to give and merit fame,
And justly bear a critic's noble name,
Be sure your self and your own reach to know,
How far your genius, taste, and learning go;
Launch not beyond your depth, but be discreet,
And mark that point where sense and dulness meet.
0000000000000000000000006cb47ea2a2deb3bb6b43649c328af1c0f0cb67e29f9caf8c00'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
Appear in writing or in judging ill;
But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' offence
To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.
Some few in that, but numbers err in this,
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss;
A fool might once himself alone expose,
Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
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