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
| Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...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 pages
...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 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 ;... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 power of understanding fails ; Where... | |
| Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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 power of understanding fails ; Where... | |
| George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...point where sense and dulness meet. Nature to all things fixed the limits fit, 50 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 ; 55... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...[ to all things || fixed | the limits fit, And wisely | curbed || proud man's | pretending wit. 2. As on | the land || while here | the ocean gains, In other | parts || it leaves | wide sandy plains. 3. So when an angel || by divine command, With rising tempests || shakes a guilty land.... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...squeaking train. Dry den. If what I get in empire I lose in fame, I think myself no gainer. — Denham. On the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains. Pope. GAME. WE have had pastimes, love, and pleasing games. Shakspere. Methought it was... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 332 pages
...mark that point where sense and duhiess 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 gams, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid... | |
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