 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
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind Pride, when 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 upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 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. 10 If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless sway. Trust... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 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... | |
 | Robert Cox - Freedom of religion - 1853 - 744 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirit, swelled with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense." As it is with individuals, so with communities : " the most ignorant nation*," says Goldsmith,... | |
 | William Holmes - Allegories - 1854 - 430 pages
...of needful pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwelled with wind ; Pride, where wit fails, fteps in to our...defence, And fills up all the mighty void of fenfe." A man becomes pofleffed of a little gold, and he all at once becomes blind, or at leaft he fees things... | |
 | William Holmes - Allegories - 1854 - 432 pages
...of needful pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwelled with wind ; Pride, where wit fails, fteps in to our...defence, And fills up all the mighty void of fenfe." A man becomes poflefled of a little gold, and he all at once becomes blind, or at leaft he fees things... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - English language - 1854 - 260 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...sense, And then turns 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 scnse."-4. 209, 10. " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
 | Louisa W. Ogden Turner - New Jerusalem Church - 1856 - 220 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits swell'd with wind j 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... | |
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