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 - 第 48 頁Christopher Smart 著 - 1752 - 230 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| William Pinnock - 1833 - 738 頁
...strangest bias rules Is IMI ш :•-, the never-railing vie* of fool«. " 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 breaks tipon us with resistless day," POPE'S... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 頁
...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. 210 504 Pride, the never- falling vice of fools. The evil of false confidence to the poet is,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 頁
...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... | |
| the christians - 1836 - 426 頁
...nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. Lnndon : Printed by JAMES 8. HODSON, »t liii re»idenft, N.15, Cro«« Street, nation Uarikn.... | |
| Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 頁
...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... | |
| My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 頁
...so in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits swells in wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense: In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies, All quit their sphere or rush into the skies :... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 頁
...in souls we find What wants in blood and spirits, filled 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 頁
...sense, And then turns critics in their own defence."—I. 28, 29. '' Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense."—I. 209, 10. " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 頁
...sense, And then turns critics in their own defence." — I. 28, 29. " Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense." — I, 209, 10. " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 頁
...in the Essay on Man : " And each vacuity of sense by Pride." Ver. 209. Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.] A very sensible French writer makes the following remark on this species of Pride : " Un homme... | |
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