Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains... Poems on Several Occasions - Pągina 36per Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 pągines
...where fenfe and dulnefs meet. U Nature Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely cwrb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the Ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide Tandy plains ; Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid jtow'r of underftanding fails ; Wh^re... | |
| 1720 - 302 pągines
...•/*' ^\ndnrark that point where fenfe and dulncfs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fir,. And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on...gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains;. Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails; Where beams of warm... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1722 - 294 pągines
...depth, but be difcreet, And mark that point where fenfe and dulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending...gains. In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains; Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails; Where beams of warm... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1749 - 110 pągines
...depth, but be difereet, 50 And mark that point where fenfe and dulneftmeet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending...gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 5$ Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The foljd pow'r of underftanding fails ; NOTES. .jr 51.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pągines
...always write as heavily as a dunce. An obfervation well worm the attention of all profound writers. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other...wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevail*, The folid pow'r of under/landing fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1751 - 240 pągines
...wjlltilvyays write as heavily as a dunce. An obfervation well worth the attention of all profound writers. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other...wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevail*, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pągines
...depth, but be difcreet, 50 And mark that point where fenfe and dulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending...gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains; J5 Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails; Where beams of warm... | |
| Joseph Spence - 1758 - 112 pągines
...genius and poet frequently complain, who fays fo happily, as he did every thing, in one of his poems ; " As on the land, while here the ocean gains, ^ " In other parts it leaves wide fandy, plains ; " Thus in the foul while memory prevails, " The folid power of underftanding fails. " Where beams... | |
| Robert Dodsley - 1761 - 380 pągines
...complain, who fays fo happily, as he did every thing, in one of his Poems j ; As on the Land, ivhile here the Ocean gains, In other Parts it leaves 'wide fandy Plains ; Thus in the Soul nvhile Memory prevails, The folid Power of Underjlanding fails ; Where Beams of... | |
| Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 pągines
...which he expreflfes this ientiment are incomparable. ' ' . * -•:-.' ": Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, " And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending...wit. ' ' " As on the land while here the ocean gains, f' In other parts it leaves wide Tandy plains ; * w " Thus " Thus in the foul while memory prevails,... | |
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