 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 - Page 36by Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...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 - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1796 - 524 pages
...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 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1779 - 406 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1779 - 1164 pages
...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 - German literature - 1783 - 202 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...depth, but be difcreet, And mark that point where fenfe anddulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd ys they run, Some to undo, and fome to be undone ; While ; Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftandmg fails ; Where beams of warm... | |
 | 1794 - 918 pages
...point where i'enfe and dulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit. And wifely curb'd pioud man's pretending wit : As on the land while here the...gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; Thus in ttie foul while memory prevails, The folid power of underHandm;; fails ; Where beams of warm... | |
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