 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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... | |
 | 1866 - 328 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 626 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. 210 If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1867 - 520 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... | |
 | Rev. William Holmes - 1868 - 282 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." A man becomes possessed of a little gold, and he all at once becomes blind, or at least he... | |
 | rev. William Holmes - 1868 - 284 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.'* A man becomes possessed of a little gold, and he all at once becomes blind, or at least he... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1869 - 266 pagina’s
...common sense, And than turn critics in their own defence."--/. 28, 29. " Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense." — /. 209, 10. " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 596 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. If once right reason drives that cloud away Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 422 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 : If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1901 - 320 pagina’s
...common-sense, And then turn critics in their own defence. " — //. 28, 29. " Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. " — //. 209, 210. " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere... | |
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