 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
 | 1826 - 82 pàgines
...all the harmony will be lost. EXAMPLE. Nature to all things fix'd 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 ; Tims in the soul, while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1826 - 396 pàgines
...that point where sense and duliiess meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb M the present of the promised vase; The coursers, for the champaign sport n other parts it leaves wide sandy plain«; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pàgines
...mark that point where sense and dulness meet. 51 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 power of understanding fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pàgines
...mark that point where sense and dulness meet. Nature to all tiiings 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... | |
 | 1836 - 362 pàgines
...almost all the harmony will be lost. Thus : 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 - 1836 - 502 pàgines
...mark that point where sense and dulneiw meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely ise ; And huild on wants, and on defects of mind, The joy, the peace, the glor Tliat most men are bom In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pàgines
...Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on tile ne that temperance advance, Cramm'd to the throat with ortolan sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pàgines
...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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pàgines
...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 ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pàgines
...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 : Thus in the soul, while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where... | |
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