 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.  Poems on Several Occasions - Página 48por Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 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... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 páginas
...nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. Lnndon : Printed by JAMES 8. HODSON, »t liii re»idenft, N.15, Cro«« Street, nation Uarikn.... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 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... | |
 | My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 páginas
...so in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits swells in wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense: In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies, All quit their sphere or rush into the skies :... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 páginas
...in souls we find What wants in blood and spirits, filled 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 páginas
...sense, And then turns 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 páginas
...sense, And then turns 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 páginas
...in the Essay on Man : " And each vacuity of sense by Pride." Ver. 209. Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.] A very sensible French writer makes the following remark on this species of Pride : " Un homme... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - 1849 - 262 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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... | |
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