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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. "
The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Ed. by H.F. Cary, with a biogr. notice ... - Page 18
by Alexander Pope - 1839
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Bibliotheca Technologica: Or, a Philological Library of Literary Arts and ...

Benjamin Martin - 1737 - 720 pages
...ftrongeft Rials rules Is Pride, the never-failing Vice of Fools. "Whatever Nature has in IVortb deny'd, She gives in large Recruits of needful Pride. For...in Souls, we find What wants in Blood and Spirits, fwell'd with [Wind : • Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to their Dc[fence, And fills up all the mighty...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...teach vain wits a science little known, T' admire superior sense, and doubt their own ! 2oa PART II. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd, 205 She gives in large recruits of needless pride ; For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find...
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Extracts, Elegant, Instructive, and Entertaining, in Poetry, Volume 1

Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - 966 pages
...\vhich confpire to blind Man's erring judgment, and mifguide the mind, What the weak head with ftrongeft bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools....recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls we find [wind : What wants in blood and fpirits, fwcll'd with Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in...
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A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ...

John Walker - 1801 - 424 pages
...though placed in that part of the verse where the ear expects an-accent. EXAMPLE. Of all the caflses which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and...weak head with strongest bias rules, , Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. Pope. An injudicious reader of verse would be very. apt to lay a stress...
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The Hive: Or, A Collection of Thoughts on Civil, Moral, Sentimental and ...

1803 - 228 pages
...the mind ; What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of foois. . Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in...in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, svvall'd with wind ; Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void...
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...,. "When the next comes , I'll charm thee thus again.. PARKJSLL, ' 174 DESCRIPTIVE , etc. On Pride. all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd , Sly; gives in large recruits of needless pride ! For , as in bodies , thus in souls,, we find...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With His Last Corrections ..., Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 pages
...teach vain wits a science little known, T' admire superior sense, and doubt their own ! 200 PART II. OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd, 205 She gives in large recruits of needlful pride : For as in bodies thus in souls we find,...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry

Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...confpire to blind Man's erring judgment, and mi (guide the mind, What the weak head with ftrongeft bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools....recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls we find [wind » What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with Pride, where Wit fails, fteps...
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The Works of the Late Edward Dayes: Containing An Excursion Through the ...

Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1805 - 432 pages
...disappointment, he Ke will have the comfort to know, that, as they make him humble, they will make him wise. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. POPE. It is said, that Mortimer used to lament his having received the premium of the gold medal from...
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The Works of the Late Edward Dayes: Containing An Excursion Through the ...

Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1805 - 422 pages
...disappointment, he he will have the comfort to know, that, as they make him humble, they will make him wise. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-faihng vice of I'ools. POPE. It is said, that Mortimer used to lament his having received the...
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