 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 Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn, Anna Lydia Ward - Quotations - 1911 - 784 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. 4023 Pope : E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line i. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's... | |
 | Evelyn St. Leger - Man-woman relationships - 1912 - 388 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. Pope.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 272 pages
...their cvrtrvn sense. And then torn critics in their own defence-" /" 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... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1913 - 264 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. Pope: Essay on Criticism. In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 646 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, 10. " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 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. •... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1926 - 310 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... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits swelled with wind : Pride, where Wit fails, steps to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tarn o' Shanter, Sense : 210 If once right Reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1928 - 406 pages
...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, 10. ' Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
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