 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
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - 1911 - 784 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. 4023 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line i. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's... | |
 | Evelyn St. Leger - 1912 - 388 páginas
...in Souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled 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. Pope.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 272 páginas
...their cvrtrvn sense. And then torn critics in their own defence-" /" Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense." /. 209, 10. " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
 | 1913 - 264 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. Pope: Essay on Criticism. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1913 - 646 páginas
...common sense, And then turn critics in their own defence." /. 28, 29. " Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense." /. 209, 10. " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 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. •... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 310 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... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 páginas
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits swelled with wind : Pride, where Wit fails, steps to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tarn o' Shanter, Sense : 210 If once right Reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1928 - 406 páginas
...sense, And then turn critics in their own defence.' — /. 28, 29. ' Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.' — /. 209, 10. ' Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
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