 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
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...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 while here the ocean gains, Jn other parts it leaves wide sandy plainsj Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...that point where sense and dulnt-ss meet. Nature to all things hVd-the limits fit, And wisely curh'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains: 5J Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails; Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...mark that point where sense and duluess meet. Nature to all things fis'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 - 1808 - 334 pages
...that point where sense and dnlness meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely cnrb'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 power of understanding fails ; Where... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - Authors - 1809 - 498 pages
...of the elegant, and judicious critick. 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... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 526 pages
...dulness meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd prond man's pretending wit. Aa 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 pow'r of understanding fails ; Where... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...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; where... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...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 pow'r of understanding fails; where... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1810 - 394 pages
...almost all the harmony will be lost. EXAMPLE. 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 pow'r of understanding fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 648 pages
...that point where sense and dulness meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits til, And wisely cuvb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves \vidu sandy plains. Thus in thesuul, while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails... | |
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