 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...where fenfe and dulnefs meet. U Nature Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely cwrb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the Ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide Tandy plains ; Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid jtow'r of underftanding fails ; Wh^re... | |
 | English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...that point where fenfe and dulncfs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fir,. And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains;. Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails; Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1749 - 110 pages
...that point where fenfe and dulneftmeet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 5$ Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The foljd pow'r of underftanding fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...always write as heavily as a dunce. An obfervation well worm the attention of all profound writers. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevail*, The folid pow'r of under/landing fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...wjlltilvyays write as heavily as a dunce. An obfervation well worth the attention of all profound writers. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevail*, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...arrocaer. x aK^a >i - - ^... aa r;ent, the Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains ; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails; Where... | |
 | Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...that point where fenfe and duluefs meet. Nature to all things nVd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit.. As on the land while...here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains. 55 Thus in the foul, while memory prevails,. The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...that point where fenfe and dulnefs meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains; J5 Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails; Where... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...acquaintance with the ESSAY ON CRITICISM. 97 Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wifely curb'd proud man's pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains; 55 Thus in the foul while memory prevails, The folid pow'r of underftanding fails ; Where... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Book collectors - 1758 - 112 pages
...genius and poet frequently complain, who fays fo happily, as he did every thing, in one of his poems ; " As on the land, while here the ocean gains, ^ " In other parts it leaves wide fandy, plains ; " Thus in the foul while memory prevails, " The folid power of underftanding fails.... | |
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Nature to all things fix'd 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... 
