Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of. fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, , She gives in large recruits of needful... Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson - Page 160edited by - 1810Full view - About this book
| Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth denied, 205 She gives in large recruits of needful Pride ; For...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelPd with wind: Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...strongest bias rules, la pride, the never-failing rice of foole. Whatever nature has in worth denied. She gives in large recruits of needful pride ! For...defence. And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 210 If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistiese day. Trust not... | |
| Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...Hectors, till they meet with an Achilles. Our great moral poet says, or rather sings, of them, What the weak head with strongest bias rules Is pride,...bodies, thus in souls, we find, What wants in blood and spirit!t, swell'd with wind. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, . And fills up all the... | |
| Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 524 pages
...rules !•* pride, the never-failing vice of fools : Whatever nature has in worth deny'd. She gives id large recruits of needful pride. For as in bodies,...in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void uf sense. Pope's Essay on. Criticism, I. 203. Voltaire Has with great humour, in his " Candide," described... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...Pride. OF all the causes, which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride,...For, as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants m blood, and spirits, swell'd with win* Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1825 - 600 pages
...the never-failing voiee of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large reeruits o flowers, that their gay wardrobe wear, When first...Sueh, Lyeidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. Where were tails, steps in to our defenee, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. If onee right reason drives... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...pride. I Of all the causes, which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride...where wit fails, steps in to our defence. And fills up «B the mighty void of sense. 2. Jf once right 'reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...the never failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gjves in large recruits ot needful pride ; For as in bodies, thus in souls, we...wind* Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, Ami fills up all the mighty void of sense. 2> If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks... | |
| Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...pride. 1. OF all the causes, which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride,...pride ! For, as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wajits in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...never-failing vice of fools*. AVnatever nature has in worth deny'd', She gives in large recruits ofneedfid pride* ! For', as in bodies', thus in souls'- we find...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 nwt... | |
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