Date: w. c. 1709, 1711
"A little Learning is a dang'rous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Piërian spring: / There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, / And drinking largely sobers us again."
preview | full record— Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Date: Wednesday, October 31, 1711
"You have, in my Opinion, raised a good presumptive Argument from the increasing Appetite the Mind has to Knowledge, and to the extending its own Faculties, which cannot be accomplished, as the more restrained Perfection of lower Creatures may, in the Limits of a short Life."
preview | full record— Hughes, John (1678?-1720)
Date: 1714
In the afterlife, "each Soul must drink long Draughts / Of those forgetful Streams."
preview | full record— Evans, Abel (1679-1737)