 | Todd Newberry, Gene Holtan - 2005 - 230 頁
...the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. In Down and Dirty Birding, Joey Slinger put the matter this way: "When they used to burn witches, the... | |
 | Elizabeth Inchbald - 2007 - 454 頁
...situation, a cultivated mind is necessary to render I Misquoted from Pope, An Essay on Criticism (i7ii): "Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, / And fills up all the mighty void of sense!" 208-09. a woman contented; and in a miserable one, it is her only consolation. A sensible, delicate... | |
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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. 
