by neufer » Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:17 pm
http://www.bartleby.com/81/7083.html wrote:
<<Tom Moore says that Common Sense went out one moonlight night with Genius on his rambles;
Common Sense went on many wise things saying, but Genius went gazing at the stars, and fell into a river.
This is told of Thales by Plato, and Chaucer has introduced it into his Milleres Tale.
- “So ferde another clerk with astronomye:
He walkëd in the feeldës for to prye
Upon the sterrës, what ther shuld befall,
Till he was in a marlë pit i-fall.”
- Brewer Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898).>>
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<<Tom Moore says that Common Sense went out one moonlight night with Genius on his rambles;
Common Sense went on many wise things saying, but Genius went gazing at the stars, and fell into a river.
This is told of Thales by Plato, and Chaucer has introduced it into his Milleres Tale.
[b][list]“So ferde another clerk with astronomye:
He walkëd in the feeldës for to prye
Upon the sterrës, what ther shuld befall,
Till he was in a marlë pit i-fall.”[/list][/b]- Brewer Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898).>>[/quote]