 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
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1881 - 524 pągines
...other pauses than those marked by the printer. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit • As on the land,...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 ; Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 pągines
...that point where sense and dulness 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 parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ;' Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1893 - 588 pągines
...mark that point where sense and dulness meet Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. • » \ As on...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 pągines
...Sense and Dulness meet. too? Nature to all things fix'd the limits fīt, And wisely curb'd proud mini'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; Where... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pągines
...that point where sense and dulness 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 parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails. Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 198 pągines
...mark that point where sense and dulness meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land...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 ; .... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 pągines
...that point where sense and dulness 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 parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails. Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 pągines
...the point where sense and dulness 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 parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 528 pągines
...that pointlwhere sense and dulness 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 parts it leaves wide sandy plains; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails; Where... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 pągines
...that point where sense and dulness 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 parts it leaves wide sandy plains; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails; Where... | |
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