A merrier man,

Within the limit of becoming mirth,

I never spent an hour's talk withal.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Tithonus.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,

Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place

A limit to the giant's unchained strength,

Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878): The Ages. xxxiii.