 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 - Pàgina 36per Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Robert Dodsley - 1761 - 380 pàgines
...complain, who fays fo happily, as he did every thing, in one of his Poems j ; As on the Land, ivhile here the Ocean gains, In other Parts it leaves 'wide fandy Plains ; Thus in the Soul nvhile Memory prevails, The folid Power of Underjlanding fails ; Where Beams of... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 pàgines
...which he expreflfes this ientiment are incomparable. ' ' . * -•:-.' ": Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, " And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending...wit. ' ' " As on the land while here the ocean gains, f' In other parts it leaves wide Tandy plains ; * w " Thus " Thus in the foul while memory prevails,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 600 pàgines
...which he exprefles this fentiment are incomparable. " Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, f And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending *' wit. " As on the land while here the ocean gains, *' Jn other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; ; ' * Tims " Thus in the foul while memory prevails,... | |
 | Owen Ruffhead - 1769 - 592 pàgines
...Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, " And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending «* wit. *'. AB on the land while here the ocean gains, '* In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; '' ' " " Thus " Thus in the foul while memory prevails, *' The folid pow'r of undo "ftanding fails... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pàgines
...mark that point where sense and dullness 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 pans jt kavei Wide sandy plains; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pàgines
...depth, but be difcreet, 50 And mark that point where lenfe and dulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending...- • ' In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; , ' . SS Thus in the foul wliile memory prevails, • - : The folid pow'r of underftanding fails;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 406 pàgines
...depth, but be difcreet, 50 And mark that point where fenfe and dulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending...Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid power of underftanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's foft figures melt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 pàgines
...mark that point where fenfe and dulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And widely curb'd proud man's pretending wit, As on the land...Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid power of underftanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's foft figures melt... | |
 | Thomas Abbt - 1783 - 202 pàgines
...fфaffen. Sie бaфе tfl, wie ber f^arfftnшae pope (Effay on Criticism. v. 45.) fo/ »ortreflidj fagt: » As on the land, while here the Ocean gains. In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains : , Thus in the foul, while Memory prevails. The folid power of Underftanding Fails j Where beams of... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 282 pàgines
...depth, but be difcreet, And mark that point where fenfe and dulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending...gains, 'In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains. Thus in the foul, while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ; Where beams of warm... | |
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