 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 592 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... | |
 | 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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