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
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...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 pages
...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 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 ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1860 - 632 pages
...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 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 ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where... | |
| 1865 - 496 pages
...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 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 ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1866 - 726 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 - 1867 - 628 pages
...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 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 ; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding feils: Where... | |
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