 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 802 pages
...souls, we find Wlmt wants in Wood and spirits, swell'd with wind. Pride, •where Wil 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... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...in souls we find What wants in blood and spirits, fill'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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind: Pride, where Wit foils, 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 - 1858 - 608 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 cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 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... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...souls, we find, What want« in blood and spirit 's fill'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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1863 - 334 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
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