 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
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1901 - 320 pages
...common-sense, And then turn critics in their own defence. " — //. 28, 29. " Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. " — //. 209, 210. " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1903 - 704 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: ю If once right Reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - Criticism - 1903 - 246 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. — POPE. Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages cursed : For... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1903 - 542 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits swelled 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... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 504 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 pages
...sense, And then turn critics in their own defence.' — /. 28, 29. 1 Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.' — /. 209, 10. ' Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 766 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled 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.... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1906 - 764 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled 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 - 1906 - 174 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled 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 - Catholics - 1906 - 196 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. 2io If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
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