Ein wenig Wissenschaft, ein wenig Gelehrsamkeit", ruft uns Pope zu, "ist eine gefährliche Sache. Schöpft tief, oder kostet den Pierischen Quell gar nicht. Ein seichter Trunk berauscht das Gehirn; aber volle Züge machen wieder nüchtern.Alexander Pope
Translation (German)
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.Alexander Pope
Original (English)
"Ein wenig Wissenschaft, ein wenig Gelehrsamkeit", ruft uns Pope zu, "ist eine gefährliche Sache. Schöpft tief, oder kostet den Pierischen Quell gar nicht. Ein seichter Trunk berauscht das Gehirn; aber volle Züge machen wieder nüchtern."
Translated from English
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1688 – 1744
englischer Dichter und Übersetzer
"Com més vell més poc cervell."
"So obliging that he ne'er oblig'd."
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
"Humane nature I always thought the most useful object of humane reason, and to make the consideration of it pleasant …"
"'Tis fixed, the irrevocable doom of Jove; No force can bend me, no persuasion move."
"Thus let me live, unseen, unknown; Thus unlamented let me die; Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie."
"I am his Highness' Dog at Kew; Pray tell me Sir, whose Dog are you?"
"Of all his works he was most proud of his garden."
"The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul."
"Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground."