 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 - Pagina 48door Christopher Smart - 1752 - 230 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pagina’s
...thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind Pride, when 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 upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swelled 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 breaks upon us with resistless sway. Trust... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1853 - 744 pagina’s
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirit, swelled with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense." As it is with individuals, so with communities : " the most ignorant nation*," says Goldsmith,... | |
 | William Holmes - 1854 - 430 pagina’s
...of needful pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwelled with wind ; Pride, where wit fails, fteps in to our...defence, And fills up all the mighty void of fenfe." A man becomes pofleffed of a little gold, and he all at once becomes blind, or at leaft he fees things... | |
 | William Holmes - 1854 - 432 pagina’s
...of needful pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwelled with wind ; Pride, where wit fails, fteps in to our...defence, And fills up all the mighty void of fenfe." A man becomes poflefled of a little gold, and he all at once becomes blind, or at leaft he fees things... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - 1854 - 260 pagina’s
...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. 2. If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pagina’s
...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 scnse."-4. 209, 10. " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
 | Louisa W. Ogden Turner - 1856 - 220 pagina’s
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits swell'd with wind j 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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