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" 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. "
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ... - Page 225
edited by - 1796 - 1008 pages
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The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1717 - 468 pages
...ftrongeft biafs rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwelFd with wind : Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to our defence,...
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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations: By Several Hands. Particularly, I ...

English poetry - 1720 - 302 pages
...ftrongeft biafs rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, fteps in to our defence,...
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Miscellaneous Poems and Translations, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1722 - 294 pages
...Eor as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits^fwelTd witlrwind : . fride, where wit fails, fteps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of fenfe ! If once right feafon drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with refiftlefs day; Truft...
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Bibliotheca Technologica: Or, a Philological Library of Literary Arts and ...

Benjamin Martin - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1737 - 720 pages
...ftrongeft Rials rules Is Pride, the never-failing Vice of Fools. "Whatever Nature has in IVortb deny'd, She gives in large Recruits of needful Pride. For as in Bodies, thus in Souls, we find What wants in Blood and Spirits, fwell'd with [Wind : • Pride, where Wit fails, fteps...
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An essay on criticism. With notes by mr. Warburton

Alexander Pope - Criticism - 1749 - 110 pages
...Natureha; given no Judgment (forheisherefpeaking ofwhat mift Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd, 305 £he gives in large recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind ; Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to our defence,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. ...: Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 236 pages
...bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing, vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd, 205 She gives in large recruits of needful Pride-; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind ; Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to our defence,...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 240 pages
...bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd, 205 She' gives in large recruits of needful Pride; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwelPd with wind ; Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to our defence,...
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Poems on Several Occasions

Christopher Smart - English poetry - 1752 - 264 pages
...ftrongeft bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives, in large recruits of needful pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls we find, . 210 What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, fteps in to our...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 398 pages
...j a-; a^x-ar; from th? J'^ppy fjfnili"; j<> v< */, L 2 Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd, 205 She gives in large recruits of needful Pride ; For" as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind : Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to our defence,...
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The British Palladium: Or, Annual Miscellany of Literature and ..., Volume 3

Almanacs, English - 1753 - 204 pages
...the Mind, What th« weak Head with ftrongeft Byat rules, Is Pride, the never failing Vice of Foals ; Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in, to our Defence, And fills up all the mighty Paid of Senfe. Popz. By Pride and Vanity the Serrant, in Opinion, equals or exceeds hi« Matter. As...
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