 | Hannah Barker, David Vincent - 2001 - 394 páginas
...been neglected. Perhaps vanity prompted the production:- But, it should have been recollected, that "Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, "And fills up all the mighty void of sense." I am, Gentlemen, Your faithful Servant, A TRUE BLUE. 3rd. Dec., 1806 Tregortha, Printer. Burslem. 1807.1... | |
 | Don Fowler - 2002 - 550 páginas
...4 and 2. 1i.7, and for cura as a cloud Hauser (1954) 53 n. 6). Cf. Pope Essay on Criticism 210-1 1: If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day, where the military metaphors predominate. naturae species ratioque : a complex phrase, susceptible... | |
 | Todd Newberry, Gene Holtan - 2005 - 230 páginas
...the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. In Down and Dirty Birding, Joey Slinger put the matter this way: "When they used to burn witches, the... | |
 | Elizabeth Inchbald - 2007 - 454 páginas
...situation, a cultivated mind is necessary to render I Misquoted from Pope, An Essay on Criticism (i7ii): "Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense!" 208-09. a woman contented; and in a miserable one, it is her only consolation. A sensible, delicate... | |
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If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not yourself; but your defects to know Make use of every friend — and every foe. 
