 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
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 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 —... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps y sense. If once right reasqn drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...in souls, we find What wants m blood, and spirits, swell'd with win* 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 - 1825 - 536 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 resistiese day. Trust... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 262 pages
...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*.... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...fouls, we find m 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. f. If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : 60 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... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...strangest bias rules Is IMI ш :•-, the never-railing vie* of fool«. " PRIDE, where wit fails, steps in to our defence And fills up all the mighty void of sense : If once right reason drives that clond away, TRUTH breaks tipon us with resistless day," POPE'S... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 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. 210 504 Pride, the never- falling vice of fools. The evil of false confidence to the poet is,... | |
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