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Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

(from An Essay on Criticism)


A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
For shallow draughts intoxicate the brain
And drinking largely sobers us again.
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 advanced, behold with strange surprise
New distant scenes of endless science rise!
So pleased at first the towering Alps we try.
Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky,
The' eternal snows appear already past,
And the first clouds and mountains seem the last;
But those attained, we tremble to survey
The growing labours of the lengthened way,
Th' increasing prospects tire our wandering eyes,
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise!

Date: 2007-10-22 02:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] timeshift.livejournal.com

Он же написал:

Слова листве подобны, а где она густа
Там вряд–ло плод таится под сению листа

Date: 2007-10-22 06:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_niece/
Дивные стихи. Вообще отличный поэт был, очень его люблю. Это там поблизости and those made fops that Nature meant but fools? Или это из Essay on Man, кажется.

Date: 2007-10-22 08:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] avva.livejournal.com
Там поблизости, да.

Date: 2007-10-22 08:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/malfet_/
Хорошие стихи. Спасибо!

Date: 2007-10-22 04:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] a7sharp9.livejournal.com
Ассоциация к холмам за холмами и Альпам на Альпах: японский корень дэ, "уходить", пишется 出 - то есть, гора 山, видимая за другой такой же.

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