 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...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 will one genius fit, fc So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...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, The memory's soft figures melt away. Pope, These lines have seldom any points inserted in the middle, even by the most scrupulous punctuists... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1802 - 152 pages
...effaced. We speak of warm images melting into the soul — of ideas melting away from the memory : — " Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away." POPE. . '. . ' - ' - J...M , .. "Though my tide of bloed Hath proudly flow'd in vanity till now, '... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; 5$ Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit ; 6t So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...Jn other parts it leaves wide sandy plainsj Thus in the soul while memory prevails, The solid pow'r 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...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...imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genins fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...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...imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genins fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : T?ot only bounded to peculiar... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Percival Stockdale - 1809 - 498 pages
...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...imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. These lines are beautiful ; but they are not just ; I apprehend that they will not b.ear a close, and... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...other parts it leaves wide sandy plains ; Thai in the soul while memory prevails, The solid jw\v'r of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away, Ooe science only will a genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit: N« only bounded to peculiar... | |
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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. 
