 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1803 - 228 pages
...souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, svvall'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 tbT.t cloud away, Truth braaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 492 pages
...fools. Whatever Nature has in wi rth deny'd, 205 She gives in large recruits of needful Pride ! Foras i. bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind: ••• i Pride, where Wit fails fteps in to our defence, ; Ami ills up ail the mighty void of fenfe.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to our defence, An I fills up all the mighty void of fenfe. If once right...drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with reliftlefs day. Truft not yourfelf ; but, your deff 61s to know, Make ufe of ev'ry friend— and ev'ry... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1805 - 288 pages
...vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth- deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ! For, as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and rpirits^fwell'd with wind. Pride, where wit fails, fteps into our defence, And fills up all the mighty... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 558 pages
...vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd, 205 She gives in large recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants...defence, And fills up all the mighty Void of fenfe. 210 If COMMENTARY. VER. 200. T admire fnperior fenfe, and doutl tlieir own !j This line concludes the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 550 pages
...vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd, 205 She gives in large recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind r Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty Void of fenfe. 210 If... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...in souls, we find What "wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind: Prid^ 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 - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...in souls, we find, What wants in hlood and spirits swell'd 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 hreaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in hlood and spirits swell dw,th wxnd : Pride, where 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 hreaks upon us with resistless day Trust... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 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... | |
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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. 
