 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 sivua
...as when he is proscribing bad authors^ 3. — - 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, a metaphor more appositely applied, or more elegantly expressed,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 sivua
...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 away. One science only will one genins fit; So... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 sivua
...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 beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genins fit; So... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 sivua
...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 beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; •So... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 498 sivua
...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 beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. These lines are beautiful ; but they are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 sivua
...pretending wit > As on the land while here the orean gains Irkothfr parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding; fails; v. < 11 ri • beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only... | |
 | 1828 - 454 sivua
...Pope's opinion, that memory and genius of a high order are never united in the same individual. " Thus In the soul, while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails; Where beuras of warm Imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away." This, however, is mere poetical... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 sivua
...pretending wit : As on the land while hern the ucean gains, In uther parts it leaves wide sandy plains; Thos in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails ; Where heams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figores melt away. One science ouly will one genins... | |
 | John Duncan (philosophical writer.) - 1820 - 138 sivua
...mind in different modifications of thinking. { Pope 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... | |
 | 1822 - 284 sivua
...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 beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; So... | |
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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;... 
