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" 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 36
by Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pages
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Questions and exercises adapted to Hiley's English grammar, style, and poetry

Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 pages
...to brighter worlds, and led the way. 6. 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...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, ed. with notes and intr. memoir by A.W ...

Alexander Pope - 1869 - 570 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...
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Willson's Intermediate Fifth Reader: On the Original Plan of the School and ...

Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1870 - 382 pages
...ninth syllable : NATURE'S CONTROLLING POWER. " 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...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 544 pages
...point where sense and dulness meet. f 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 ; u Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ;'...
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The poetical works of Alexander Pope. With memoir, critical diss., and ...

Alexander Pope - 1872 - 744 pages
...with all their skill, they ne'er could do. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, 62 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...
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The Sixth Reader of the United States Series: Embracing, in Brief, the ...

Marcius Willson - Indiana - 1872 - 382 pages
...it falls twice after the ninth syllable : " 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...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...deep. POPE. A length of ocean and unbounded sky Which scarce the sea-fowl in a year o'erfly. POPE. So on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains. POPE. Here retired, the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness bilver'd o'er the...
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POPE, SELECTED POEMS; THE ESSAY ON CRITICISM; THE MORAL ESSAYS; THE DUNCIAD

THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 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, Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where...
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Scripture searchings in the New Testament illustrating the ..., Volume 1

Edgar Dyke Whitmarsh - 1877 - 620 pages
...it. — Bp. BUTLER, Analogy, pt. ic 1. 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...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...deep. POPE. A length of ocean and unbounded sky Which scarce the sea-fowl in a year o'erfly. POPE. So on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains. POPE. Here retired, the sinking billows sleep, And smiling calmness silver'd o'er the...
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