 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 - Page 48by Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...What the weak head with ftrongeft bias rules, ff Truth breaks upon us with refiftlefs day. 2_Wjjat wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind. Pride, where wit fails, fteps into our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of fenfe. If once right reafon drives that cloud... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...sense, And then turn 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... | |
 | Phrenology - 1848 - 396 pages
...illustrations of Professor Fowler. How true wai the poet's remark: ' Pride, where wit fail«, rteps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sci»e.' " We are happy to assure our readers, however, notwithstanding this sorry opposition on the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...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. Trust... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...in souls, we find Whatwants 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... | |
 | Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...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. " A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...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 COMMENTARY. " Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry Friend—and... | |
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