 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 páginas
...pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other pans jt kavei Wide sandy plains; 55 Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails5 Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 páginas
...insects of the Nile. POPE never | shines so brightly as when he is proscribing bad authors. 5. — In the soul while MEMORY prevails, The solid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails : Where beams of bright IMAGINATION play, The MEMORY'S soft figures melt away"'.* I hardly believe there is in any language,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 páginas
...insects of the Nile. POPE never shines so brightly as when he is proscribing bad authors. 5. —-lu the soul while MEMORY prevails, The solid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails: Where beams of bright IMAGINATION play, The MEMORY'S soft figures melt away.* I hardly believe there is in any language,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 páginas
...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...understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, Tire memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genins fit; So vast is art, so narrow... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 páginas
...pretending wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains: 5J Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails; Where heams of warm imagination play, The memory's soTt figures melt away. ' i:.s,' f- .;' One science only... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 páginas
...duluess meet. Nature to all things fis'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 - 1808 - 334 páginas
...dnlness meet. Nature to all things fix'd the limits fit, And wisely cnrb'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 - 1808 - 702 páginas
...limits fit, And wisely curb'd prond man's pretending wit: As on the land while here the ocean gaing, 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... | |
 | 1808 - 408 páginas
...the land while here Ihe ocean poins, lu ». tiir г parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Tims iü tlie soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding...fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play. The memory'« soft iignrcs melt uway. One science only will one Bénins fit ; So vast is nrt, so narrow... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 498 páginas
...judicious critick. 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... | |
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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; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails;... 
