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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 Poems, of the Late Christopher Smart, ... Consisting of His Prize Poems ... - Page 202
by Christopher Smart - 1791
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Principal Points of Difference, Between the Old and New Christian Churches

Louisa W. Ogden Turner - 1856 - 220 pages
...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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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pages
...in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind: Pride, where Wit foils, 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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The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 49

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1857 - 738 pages
...lose their common-sense, And then turn critics in their own defence.' ' Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense.' ' Some by old words to fame have made pretence. Ancients in phrase, mere moderns in their sense.'...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic

Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...in souls we find What wants in blood and spirits, fill'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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 pages
...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 cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: With a Life, Volume 2

Alexander Pope - 1859 - 330 pages
...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...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...souls, we find, What want« in blood and spirit 's fill'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...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical ..., Volume 18

John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 596 pages
...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...
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The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science ..., Volume 25

Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 422 pages
...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...
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Essays on Poetry

William Hazlitt - 1901 - 320 pages
...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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