 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...forgive, divine. Unblemished let me live, or die unknown ; O grant an honest fame, or grant me none ! Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Avoid extremes'^'- afijshurittie fault of sucfiy v* Who still are pleased too -little or too much.'... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...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...swell'd with wind. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to oar defence, And Oils up all the mighty void of sense. 2. If once rigtu reason drives that cloud away,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...as lovely in our minds, As on our smiling eyes his servant sun. TKOMSAf. SECTION III. On Pride. O* all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deni'd, She gives in large recruits of needful... | |
 | Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...Envy.—Against envy, and in praise of good-nature.— When severity is chiefly to be used by critics. OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...has in worth denied 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...as lovely in our minds, As on our smiling eyes his servant sun. TKOMPSOH SECTION III. On pride. 1. Of all the causes, which conspire to blind Man's erring...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... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1822 - 404 pages
...have a stress, though placed in that part of the verse where the ear expects an accent. EXAMPLE. Ot all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. Pope . An injudicious reader of verse would be very apt to lay a stress... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...collections may be made with much more ease, by means of an art scarce known in his time, I mean that of L What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride,...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 souls, we find... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...collections may be made with much more ease, by means of an art scarce known in his time, I mean that of What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride,...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 souls, we find... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...to have a stress, though placed in that part of the verse where the ear expects an accent. EXAMPLE. Of all the causes which conspire to blind , Man's...weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. Pope. An injudicious reader of verse would be very apt to lay a stress... | |
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OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 
