 | Alexander Pope - 1906 - 174 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 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 ;... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 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 ;... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - 1915 - 504 sivua
...another. 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. Here the Soul in the third Verse is made... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - 1915 - 504 sivua
...another. 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. Here the Soul in the third Verse is made... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 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 ;... | |
 | Evelyn Foley Braley - 1922 - 264 sivua
...to know,' and a French proverb says, ' Beaucoup de memoire, peu de jugement.' Pope declares — Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid power of understanding fails. There is in these days a reaction against learning by heart, but we must not allow it to lead us too... | |
 | English Association - 1924 - 152 sivua
...of verse 56 et seq. of The Essay on Criticism : '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.' In the Essay, i, pp. 118-19, Warton comments as follows: ' I hardly believe there is in any language... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 sivua
...the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; ALEXANDER POPE Thus 2 warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit ;... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 sivua
...wit. As on the land while here the ocean gains, In other parts it leaves wide sandy plains; 55 Thus ss T warm Imagination play, The Memory's soft figures melt away. One Science only will one genius fit; 60... | |
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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;... 
