 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 36por Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 páginas
...with all their skill, they ne'er could do. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, 52 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, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 páginas
...skill, they ne'er could do. * in '-'''t eo Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, 52 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 - 1859 - 330 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 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 - 1860 - 632 páginas
...murk that point where sense and dulnvss meet Nature to all things iix'd the limits tit, 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 - 1863 - 334 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 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... | |
 | 1865 - 496 páginas
...things intellectual as well as material.] " 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 ; 55 Thus in the soul, while memory (17) prevails, The solid power of understanding fails... | |
 | 1866 - 328 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 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... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 páginas
...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 power of understanding fails ; where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 páginas
...mark that point where sense and dulness meet. 51 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 - 1867 - 520 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 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 feils: Where... | |
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