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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. "
Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry, Selected for ... - Page 225
edited by - 1796 - 1008 pages
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The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1754 - 264 pages
...bias rules, Is PRIDE, the nev'r-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in' worth deny'd, 205 She gives in large recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind : Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to our defence,...
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Juvenile poems

Alexander Pope - 1757 - 280 pages
...rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd, 205 She giveyin large recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind : COM'MENTARY. cf Wit ; the extenfive jluJy of human...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Nine Volumes Complete, with ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1760 - 316 pages
...What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell.d with wind." Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd, 205" She gives in large recruits of needful Pride ; For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind ; Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to our defence,...
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The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of ...

Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...pride : For as in bodies, thug in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind ; Pride, where wit fails, fteps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of fenfe. If once right reafon drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with refiftlefs day. Truft...
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The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of ...

John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...by afs rules, Is PRIDE, the never failing vice of fools-. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride : For as 'in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with wind'; Pride, where wit fails, fteps in to our defence,...
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Comp. from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - Poets, English - 1769 - 600 pages
...For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find " What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with " wind : ** Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to our defence, " And fills up all the mighty Void of fenfe.. " If once right reafon drives that cloud away, " Truth breaks upon us with refiftlefs day....
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 600 pages
...the firft ," Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. " Whatever Nature has in worth dcny'd, " She gives in large recruits of needful Pride ; " For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find " What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with " wind : ** Pride, whereWit fails, fteps in to our...
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The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq: Compiled from Original Manuscripts; with a ...

Owen Ruffhead - Biography - 1769 - 592 pages
...bodies, thus in fouls, we find " What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'dwith " wind : " Pride, whereWit fails, fteps in to our defence, " And fills up all the mighty Void of fenfe. " If once right reafon drives that cloud away, " Truth breaks upon us with refiftlefs day. "...
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Bell's Edition, Volumes 75-76

John Bell - English poetry - 1796 - 524 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; 210 If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust...
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The Works of the English Poets: Pope

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 412 pages
...Pride ! For as in bodies, thus in fouls, we find What wants in blood and fpirits, fwell'd with windi Pride, where Wit fails, fteps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of lenfe. no If once right reafon drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with refiftlefs day. Truft.not...
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