 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1921 - 458 pages
...straining or excess of any one of them. "So strong a wit," says Cowley, speaking of a poetical friend, " did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment...overcame; His judgment like the heavenly moon did show, Tempering that mighty sea below."* The ground of the mistake is, that men, finding in the raptures... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1923 - 144 pages
...straining or excess of any one of them. ' So strong a wit,' says Covvley, speaking of a poetical friend, did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment...overcame, His judgment like the heavenly moon did show, Tempering that mighty sea below. The ground of the mistake is, that men, finding in the raptures... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke, Hardin Craig, Asa Don Dickinson - 1922 - 1920 pages
...learning ever crowded lie In such a short mortality. Whene'er the skilful youth discoursed or writ, Still did the notions throng About his eloquent tongue, Nor could his ink flow faster than his wit. 9* So strong a wit did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment overcame;... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 140 pages
...straining or excess of any one of them. ' So strong a wit,' says Cowley, speaking of a poetical friend, did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment...overcame, His judgment like the heavenly moon did show, Tempering that mighty sea below. The ground of the mistake is, that men, finding in the raptures... | |
 | E. Derry Evans - 1930 - 124 pages
...straining or excess of any one of them. " So strong a wit," says Cowley, speaking of a poetical friend, " did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment...overcame; His judgment like the heavenly moon did show, Tempering that mighty sea below." The ground of the mistake is, that men, finding in the raptures... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1826 - 648 pages
...straining or excess of any one of them. " So strong a wit," »ays Cowley, speaking of a poetical friend, " did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment...overcame; His judgment, like the heavenly moon did show, Tempering that inigluysea below." The ground of the fallacy is, that men, finding in the raptures... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1896 - 502 pages
...As to their chiefest seat Conspicuous, and great; So low that for me too it made a room. So strong a wit did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment overcame; His judgment like the heav'nly moon did show, Temp'ring that mighty sea below. Oh had he lived in learning's world, what... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1905 - 486 pages
...Learning ever crowded lie In such a short Mortalitie. When ere the skilful Youth discourst or writ, Still did the Notions throng About his eloquent Tongue, Nor could his Ink flow faster then his Wit. >3So strong a Wit did Nature to him frame, As all things but his Judgement overcame... | |
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Did Nature to him frame, As all things but his judgment overcame ; His judgment like the heavenly moon did show, Tempering that mighty sea below. 
