 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...Nature to all things fii'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit : As on the hind he hard inhabitant contends is right. 230 Virtuous...man must be, Few in the extreme, but all in the degr power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's sou figures melt... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Intellect - 1831 - 544 pages
...time, deny that there is some foundation for the remark so happily expressed in Pope's noted distich, " Where beams of warm imagination play» '•The memory's soft figures melt away, The fact I apprehend to be this, that the colourings and finishing of Imagination are apt to blend... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1833 - 736 pages
...learning, however they may lead or excite to the acquisition of knowledge extensive and multifarious — Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. Minuter particulars, and such as but seldom occur to the attention, are forgotten. The mind indeed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pages
...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 while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...dulness meet. Nature to all tiiings 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...Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt... | |
 | Oratory - 1836 - 362 pages
...lost. Thus : 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...Thus in the soul, while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...curb'd proud man's pretending wit : As on the land while here the ocean gains, Tliat most men are bom ming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, 250 power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on tile ne that temperance advance, Cramm'd to the throat...Extremely ready to resign All that may make me none of power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt... | |
 | Oratory - 1840 - 452 pages
...fixed the limits fit, And wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit. As on the land, while here tho ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains...Thus in the soul, while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...sanctioned this opinion in his Essay on Criticism. " Thus in the soul while memory prevails The solid power of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play The memory's soft figures melt away." Those who have weak memories and who wish to be reconciled to their misfortune, should peruse Montaigne,... | |
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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,... 
