 | 1816 - 764 pages
...And mounting upward with ere«Sed Right, Gain on the fkies, and foar above the fight. Drtden. . So en the land, while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide fandy plains. Pope. .•». To get eround ; to prevail againft : with on. — The Englifh have not... | |
 | John Duncan (philosophical writer.) - 1820 - 138 pages
...seems, however, of the common opinion. " 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." 85 by di-greesof excellence of thinking alone, in whatever mat.ner; not by the distinctions of fancy... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 pages
...EXAMPLE. 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...imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. PoptThese lines have seldom any points inserted in the middle, even by the most scrupulous punctuists... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...dulness meet. 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...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 - 1822 - 426 pages
...dulness meet. 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 pow'r of understanding fails ; NOTES. Ver. 56.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...dulness meet. 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 pow'r of understanding fails ; NOTES. Ver. 56.... | |
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...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 away. One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit: Not only bounded to peculiar... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...EXAMPLE, 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...inserted in the middle, even by the most scrupulous punc tuists; and yet nothing can be more palpable to the ear than that a pause in the first at things,... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 pages
...this view of imagination is correct, the sentiment of Pope in the following lines must be erroneous. ' Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.' o 3 Here it is plainly asserted, that imagination and memory are inconsistent with each other; that... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...dulnees meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely curb'd proud man's pretending wit : e br */ power of understanding fails; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt... | |
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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,... 
