 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...dulnt-ss meet. Nature to all things hVd-the limits fit, And wisely curh'd proud man's 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... | |
 | 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, 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 - 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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...dulness meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd prond man's pretending wit. Aa on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Tims in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thai in the soul while memory prevails, The solid jw\v'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away, Ooe science only will a genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit: N« only bounded to peculiar... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 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...imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit : not only bounded to peculiar... | |
 | Helvétius - Education - 1810 - 438 pages
...man may have a great memory, without a a great understandingf. * So Pope in his Essay on Criticism, As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other...imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. This seems to be a vulgar error; a strong memory and a fertile invention frequently go together, tht... | |
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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 pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play,... 
