She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. Juvenile poems - Página 112por Alexander Pope - 1757Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 21c If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1815 - 262 páginas
...refiftlefs day. 2_Wjjat wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind. Pride, where wit fails, fteps into our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of fenfe. If once right reafon drives that cloud away, ' New diftant fcenes of endlefs fcience rife ! Sor-plenTd at firft the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount... | |
| 1848 - 396 páginas
...illustrations of Professor Fowler. How true wai the poet's remark: ' Pride, where wit fail«, rteps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sci»e.' " We are happy to assure our readers, however, notwithstanding this sorry opposition on the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 páginas
...sense, And then turn critics in their own defence." — I. 28, 29. " Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense." — I. 209, 10, " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1821 - 280 páginas
...in souls, we find "What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 276 páginas
...in souls, we find Whatwants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind: Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense : If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 páginas
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, ' And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 210 If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 páginas
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 2. If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
| Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 páginas
...in souls we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind: Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. " A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 400 páginas
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind: Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 210 COMMENTARY. " Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry Friend—and... | |
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