 | John Walker - Elocution - 1799 - 438 pages
...EXAMPLE. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit ; As on the land, while here the ocean gains, • In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; Thus in the foul, while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ; Where... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - English poetry - 1802 - 152 pages
...effaced. We speak of warm images melting into the soul — of ideas melting away from the memory : — " Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away." POPE. . '. . ' - ' - J...M , .. "Though my tide of bloed Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now, ' " Now... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...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, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; 5$ Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 496 pages
...meet. 51 Nature to all thing? fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretcrdirg wit : As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide faudy pUins ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The fob'd power of undcrftanding fails ; Where... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...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...imagination play,. The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...dulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely eurb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the Soul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails $... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...insects of the Nile. POPE never | shines so brightly as when he is proscribing bad authors. 5. — In the soul while MEMORY prevails, The solid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails : Where beams of bright IMAGINATION play, The MEMORY'S soft figures melt away"'.* I hardly believe there is in any language,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...dulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains j 55 Thus in the Soul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails j... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 pages
...insects of the Nile. POPE never shines so brightly as when he is proscribing bad authors. 5. —-lu the soul while MEMORY prevails, The solid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails: Where beams of bright IMAGINATION play, The MEMORY'S soft figures melt away.* I hardly believe there is in any language,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...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, In other...understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, Tire memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genins fit; So vast is art, so narrow... | |
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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 ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play,... 
