 | Joseph Warton - 1756 - 348 Seiten
...fo brightly as when he is profcribing bad authors. 5. In the foul while MEMORY prevails, The folid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails ; Where beams of bright imagination play, The memory's foft figures melt away. * • I hardly believe there is in any language a metaphor more appofitely... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1762 - 362 Seiten
...brightly as when he is profcribing bad authors. .. 5. — In the foul while MEMORY prevails, The folid pow'r of UNDERSTANDING fails; Where beams of bright IMAGINATION play, The MEMORY'S foft figures meh away*. I HARDLY believe there is in any language a metaphor more appofitely applied,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 218 Seiten
...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, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; So... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 Seiten
...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; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; 69... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 Seiten
...insects of the Nile. POPE never shines so brightly as when he is proscribing bad authors. 5. — Iii the soul while MEMORY prevails, The solid pow'r of...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,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 426 Seiten
...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...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,... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 420 Seiten
...-the insects of the Nile. PoPE never shines so brightly as when he is proscribing bad authors. 5. ¿ the soul while MEMORY prevails, The solid pow'r of...IMAGINATION play; - The MEMORY'S soft figures melt away.* I hardly believe there is in any language, a metaphor -more appositely applied, Or more ele'gantly... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 526 Seiten
...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, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius nt; So... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 Seiten
...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; where beams of warm imagination play, the memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; so... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 Seiten
...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, the memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; so... | |
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that 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 
