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Genre:
"Poetry"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Religion of Author:
"Roman Catholic"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Restoration"
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Metaphor Category:
"Eating and Drinking"
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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)