 | My school-boy days - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 190
...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 :... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 884
...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 490
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...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... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...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... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...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... | |
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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. 
