 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
 | Helvétius - Education - 1810 - 438 pages
...man may have a great memory, without a a great understandingf. * So Pope in his Essay on Criticism, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...mark that point where sense and dullness meet. Nature to all things frx'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit > As on the land while here the orean gains Irkothfr parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 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 ;... | |
 | Horace - Criticism - 1812 - 198 pages
...homens Oh vós que buscairs dar, merecer fama, 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 \vide sandy plains; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid povv'r of understanding fails... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 230 pages
...meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As ou the land while 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 764 pages
...And mounting upward with ere«Sed Right, Gain on the fkies, and foar above the fight. Drtden. . So en the land, while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains. Pope. .•». To get eround ; to prevail againft : with on. — The Englifh have not only gained upon... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 772 pages
...upward with erected flight, Gain on the flcies, and foar above the fight. Drfden. So en the land, whil* here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains. .'••..''.--. f. To get pround ; to prevail againft : with on.— The Englifh have not only gained... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 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 ; Where... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...mark that pointwhere 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 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 ;... | |
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