 | Alexander Pope - 1717 - 468 pages
...meet. U Nature Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely cwrb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the Ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide Tandy plains ; Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid jtow'r of underftanding fails ; Wh^re... | |
 | 1720 - 302 pages
...dulncfs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fir,. And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. 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 pow'r of underftanding fails; Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1749 - 110 pages
...dulneftmeet. 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, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 5$ Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The foljd pow'r of underftanding fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...always write as heavily as a dunce. An obfervation well worm the attention of all profound writers. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevail*, The folid pow'r of under/landing fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 240 pages
...wjlltilvyays write as heavily as a dunce. An obfervation well worth the attention of all profound writers. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevail*, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...r;ent, the 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, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails; Where... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1752 - 264 pages
...duluefs meet. Nature to all things nVd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit.. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains. 55 Thus in the foul, while memory prevails,. The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...dulnefs meet. 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, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains; J5 Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails; Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...CRITICISM. 97 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, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ; Where... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1758 - 112 pages
...genius and poet frequently complain, who fays fo happily, as he did every thing, in one of his poems ; " 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.... | |
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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,... 
