 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 strani
...! For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : 60 Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And...not yourself, but your defects to know, Make use of eveiy friend — and every foe. 65 Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1833 - 738 strani
...mini), What the weak head with strangest bias rules Is IMI ш :•-, the never-railing vie* of fool«. " PRIDE, where wit fails, steps in to our defence And...mighty void of sense : If once right reason drives that clond away, TRUTH breaks tipon us with resistless day," POPE'S ESSAY ON MAN. Of all the vices, theie... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 strani
...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...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, that... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 strani
...wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense, And fills up all the mighty void of sense : no If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth...yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 strani
...205 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...Defence, And fills up all the mighty Void of Sense\ 210 1 80. Modes te, & circumspecto judicio de tantis viris pronunciandum est, ne quod (quod plerisque... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - 1994 - 1712 strani
...begin, and the future pages of history may contain full evidence, and convey full proof that CHAPTER II "Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence And fills up all the mighty void of sense — POPE, Essay on Criticism, 209. "But why should the operations of nature be changed? There may be... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 strani
...of needful pride; For as in bodies, thus 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. 210 If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not... | |
 | Hannah Barker, David Vincent - 2001 - 394 strani
...been neglected. Perhaps vanity prompted the production:- But, it should have been recollected, that "Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, "And fills up all the mighty void of sense." I am, Gentlemen, Your faithful Servant, A TRUE BLUE. 3rd. Dec., 1806 Tregortha, Printer. Burslem. 1807.1... | |
 | Don Fowler - 2002 - 550 strani
...4 and 2. 1i.7, and for cura as a cloud Hauser (1954) 53 n. 6). Cf. Pope Essay on Criticism 210-1 1: If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day, where the military metaphors predominate. naturae species ratioque : a complex phrase, susceptible... | |
 | Todd Newberry, Gene Holtan - 2005 - 230 strani
...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... | |
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If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not yourself; but your defects to know Make use of every friend — and every foe. 
