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
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 372 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 páginas
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1876 - 448 páginas
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 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876
...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... | |
 | Edgar Dyke Whitmarsh - 1877
...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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 772 páginas
...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... | |
 | Charles John Plumptre - 1881 - 524 páginas
...other pauses than those marked by the printer. 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 - 1871
...that point where sense and dulness meet 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 pow'r of understanding fails ;' Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1893 - 505 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1903 - 704 páginas
...Sense and Dulness meet. too? Nature to all things fix'd the limits fît, And wisely curb'd proud mini'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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