 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 - Pagina 36door Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Helvétius - 1810 - 438 pagina’s
...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 - 1810 - 546 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 1812 - 198 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1816 - 764 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 1822 - 404 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pagina’s
...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 - 1822 - 426 pagina’s
...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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