 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 mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind ; But, more...  Poems on Several Occasions - 第 50 頁Christopher Smart 著 - 1752 - 230 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 頁
...Fired at first sight with what the Muse imparts, In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts, 220 While from the bounded level of our mind, Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But, more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless... | |
 | Richard W. Bevis - 1999 - 442 頁
...Criticism (1711), for example, Pope compares a long course of study to an Alpine climb: 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 more advanc'd, behold with strange Surprize New, distant scenes of endless... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 頁
...The simile tells a story of overconfidence leading into danger. Illustrating how "In fearless Youthwe tempt the Heights of Arts, / While from the bounded Level of our Mind, / Short Views we take," Pope adopts an alpine context to explain the dangerous inaccuracy of such intellectual presumption:... | |
 | Grant Ian Thrall - 2002 - 280 頁
...And drinking largely sobers us again. Fir'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 more advanc'd, behold with strange surprise New, distant scenes of endless... | |
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