 | John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other pans jt kavei Wide sandy plains; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails5 Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...insects of the Nile. POPE never | shines so brightly as when he is proscribing bad authors. 5. — In the soul while MEMORY prevails, The solid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails : Where beams of bright IMAGINATION play, The MEMORY'S soft figures melt away"'.* I hardly believe there is in any language,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...insects of the Nile. POPE never shines so brightly as when he is proscribing bad authors. 5. —-lu the soul while MEMORY prevails, The solid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails: Where beams of bright IMAGINATION play, The MEMORY'S soft figures melt away.* I hardly believe there is in any language,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...dulness meet. 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...understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, Tire memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genins fit; So vast is art, so narrow... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains: 5J Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails; Where heams of warm imagination play, The memory's soTt figures melt away. ' i:.s,' f- .;' One science only... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...duluess meet. Nature to all things fis'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other...Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...dnlness meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely cnrb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other...Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...limits fit, And wisely curb'd prond man's pretending wit: As on the land while here the ocean gaing, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt... | |
 | 1808 - 408 pages
...the land while here Ihe ocean poins, lu ». tiir г parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Tims iü tlie soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding...fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play. The memory'« soft iignrcs melt uway. One science only will one Bénins fit ; So vast is nrt, so narrow... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - Authors - 1809 - 498 pages
...judicious critick. Nature to all things fixed the limits fit, And wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit. As on the land, while here, the ocean gains, In other...Thus, in the soul, while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt... | |
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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; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails;... 
