 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 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...defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 210 COMMENTARY. " Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry Friend — and ev'ry... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing voice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, ppear, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere;...and so dissolves in supernatural light. Some few, If once right reasqn drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not yourself;... | |
 | 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, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...an ill-nourished body; where the same words which express the catse, express likewise the nature of PRIDE: " For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find...What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind." Tis the business of Reason, he tells us, to dispel the cloud in which pride involves the mind : but... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...an ill-nourished body ; where the same words which express the cause, express likewise the nature of PRIDE : " For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find...What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind." Tis the business of Reason, he tells us, to dispel the cloud in which pride involves the mind : but... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth denied She giies in large recruits of needful pride : For as in bodies,...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 not... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...strongest bias rules Is pride, the never'failing vice of fools : Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride. For...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful 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... | |
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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. 
