 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 - 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 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 1 80. Modes te, & circumspecto judicio de tantis viris pronunciandum est, ne quod (quod... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 1712 pages
...history may contain full evidence, and convey full proof that CHAPTER II "Pride, where wit fails, steps l science has already reached its limits of explorati sense — POPE, Essay on Criticism, 209. "But why should the operations of nature be changed? There... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 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. 210 If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | Hannah Barker, David Vincent - History - 2001 - 394 pages
...prompted the production:- But, it should have been recollected, that "Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, "And fills up all the mighty void of sense." I am, Gentlemen, Your faithful Servant, A TRUE BLUE. 3rd. Dec., 1806 Tregortha, Printer. Burslem.... | |
 | Todd Newberry, Gene Holtan - Nature - 2005 - 230 pages
...with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. In Down and Dirty Birding, Joey Slinger put the matter this way: "When they used to burn witches,... | |
 | Elizabeth Inchbald - Fiction - 2007 - 454 pages
...necessary to render I Misquoted from Pope, An Essay on Criticism (i7ii): "Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense!" 208-09. a woman contented; and in a miserable one, it is her only consolation. A sensible,... | |
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