 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 - Página 34por Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 páginas
...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 ;... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810
...that point where sense and dulness meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits til, And wisely cuvb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves \vidu sandy plains. Thus in thesuul, while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails... | |
 | Helvétius - 1810 - 415 páginas
...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 páginas
...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
...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 - 171 páginas
...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
...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
...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
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1890 - 550 páginas
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