 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...[ to all things || fixed | the limits fit, And wisely | curbed || proud man's | pretending wit. 2. As on | the land || while here | the ocean gains, In other | parts || it leaves | wide sandy plains. 3. So when an angel || by divine command, With rising tempests || shakes a guilty land. 4. Then from... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...squeaking train. Dry den. If what I get in empire I lose in fame, I think myself no gainer. — Denham. On the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains. Pope. GAME. WE have had pastimes, love, and pleasing games. Shakspere. Methought it was the sound Of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 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...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 - 1856 - 352 pages
...could do. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, 52 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... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...dullness meet. Nature to all things fixed the limits fit, And wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.3 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 - Poetry - 1963 - 884 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 ; Tutors, like Virtuoso's,... | |
 | Richard M. Martin - Philosophy - 1983 - 248 pages
...John Eccles "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...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... | |
 | William Bowman Piper - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 212 pages
...figures that are vulnerable to heat and the power of imagination to intrusive sunlight, remarking, "Where beams of warm Imagination play, /The Memory's soft Figures melt away." False eloquence he likens to the effect of the prism, which had recently been obtruded on public notice... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...dullness meet. 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... | |
 | Fredric V. Bogel - Fiction - 2001 - 280 pages
...limitation: 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... | |
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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,... 
