Poets of the English Language: Milton to GoldsmithWystan Hugh Auden, Norman Holmes Pearson Viking Press, 1950 - American Poetry (Collections) |
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... 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 souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : Pride ...
... 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 souls , we find What wants in blood and spirits , swell'd with wind : Pride ...
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... Pride , in reas'ning Pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Aspiring to be Gods , if Angels fell , Aspiring to ...
... Pride , in reas'ning Pride , our error lies ; All quit their sphere , and rush into the skies . Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes , Men would be Angels , Angels would be Gods . Aspiring to be Gods , if Angels fell , Aspiring to ...
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... Pride , or grow on Shame . Thus Nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) The virtue nearest to our vice ally'd ; Reason the byas turns to good from ill , And Nero reigns a Titus , if he will . The fiery soul abhorr'd in Catiline , In ...
... Pride , or grow on Shame . Thus Nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) The virtue nearest to our vice ally'd ; Reason the byas turns to good from ill , And Nero reigns a Titus , if he will . The fiery soul abhorr'd in Catiline , In ...
Contents
Introduction | xiii |
General Principles | xxvi |
JOHN MILTON 16081674 | 1 |
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