 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 - Page 36by Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...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 - Catholics - 1906 - 198 pages
...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 ; .... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...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 - 1906 - 174 pages
...the 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... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 528 pages
...that pointlwhere 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; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails; Where... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - English poetry - 1907 - 506 pages
...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; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails; Where... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...mark that point where sense and duluess 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 pow'r of understanding fails ; Where... | |
 | John William Cunliffe, James Francis Augustin Pyre, Karl Young - English literature - 1911 - 1196 pages
...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, 56 The solid power of understanding fails; Where... | |
 | John Donne - 1938 - 444 pages
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