 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 pages
...all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit, As on the land ifhile here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide...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 - 452 pages
...Criticism, As on the land while here the ocean gain;, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plain! ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid...imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. This seems to be a vulgar error ; a strong memory and a fertile inventiou frequently go together, the... | |
 | 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 parts it leaves wide sandy plains; 55 thus in the soul while memory prevails, the solid pow'r of understanding fails; where beams of warm... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 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 parts it leaves wide sandy plains; 55 thus in the soul while memory prevails, the solid pow'r of understanding fails; where beams of warm... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit > As on the land while here the orean gains Irkothfr parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding; fails; v. < 11 ri • beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...dulness meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits til, And wisely cuvb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves \vidu sandy plains. Thus in thesuul, while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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 parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As ou the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...merecer fama, 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 \vide sandy plains; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid povv'r of understanding fails... | |
 | Charles Hayter - 1815 - 266 pages
...possession of. 156 And how vainly the idle take shelter under a very pretty conclusion of " Pope's," that " Where Beams of warm imagination play, " The Memory's soft figures melt away." There is a degree of impiety in pleading a want of faculties, when the real want is proper industry... | |
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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,... 
