 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...sanctioned this opinion in his Essay on Criticism. " 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." Those who have weak memories and who wish to be reconciled to their misfortune, should peruse Montaigne,... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...apart , it is a di'mond still. (Young's N. Th.) 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. (Pope's Essays.) 1. To REACH, 2. STRETCH, 3. EXTEND. 1. @Ц erftteáen, retajen, erretdjm; 2. ftdj... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...dullness meet. Nature to all things iixYl 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. One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit: Not only bounded to peculiar... | |
 | Moses Mendelssohn - German letters - 1844 - 624 pages
...фгоЬе mitt^etlen, unb mit folgenben »or-- treff lidien ¿Síilen ben Anfang тафеп wollen: Art. 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. (v. 56.) ') Bacon'« Essays 44. £>a«... | |
 | Moses Mendelssohn - German letters - 1844 - 626 pages
...einige jut'Sprob» mitif)eilen, unb mit folgenben »or= Beilen ben 3infang тафеп roolíen: Art. 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. < v. 56.) ') Bacon's KSSMJS 44. 2>ne... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 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 ; COMMENTARY. Ver.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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... | |
 | Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 562 pages
...impiety." We must not suppose from this remark that his memory was deficient, for, though Pope says;— " Where beams of warm imagination play; The memory's soft figures melt away," he was blessed with an astounding memory; so much so, as to be able to repeat the lines of Hudibras... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...meet. Nature to all things fixed the limits fit, 50 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 ; 55 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,... 
