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" 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 48
by Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pages
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 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. If once right reason drives that cloud away Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust...
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The British Poets, Volume 2

1866 - 328 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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The poetical works of Alexander Pope, with life of the author and notes by J ...

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 628 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...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Ed. by the Rev. H. F. Cary

Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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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Religious Emblems and Allegories: A Series of Engravings, with Suitable ...

Rev. William Holmes - Allegories - 1868 - 282 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." A man becomes possessed of a little gold, and he all at once becomes blind, or at least he...
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Religious emblems and allegories, a series of engravings

rev. William Holmes - 1868 - 284 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.'* A man becomes possessed of a little gold, and he all at once becomes blind, or at least he...
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The round table [essays] by W. Hazlitt [including A day by the fire, by J.H ...

William Hazlitt - 1869 - 262 pages
...common sense, And than 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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Selections from the British Satirists: With an Introductory Essay by Cecil ...

Cecil Headlam - English literature - 1897 - 342 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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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 18

John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 596 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...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 25

Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - Anthologies - 1901 - 422 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...
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