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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. "
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...bias rules, Is Pride, the never-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 souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where Wit fails, steps in...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1

Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...bias rules, Is Pride, the never-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 souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where Wit fails, steps in...
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The Bardiad: A Poem ; in Two Cantos

Charles Burton - 1823 - 234 pages
...strongest bias rules, It 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 souls we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind: Pride, where wit fails, steps in...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth denied, 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 Wit fails, steps in...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing voice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She r, When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows rea souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth denied, 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 Wit fails, steps in...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: With Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 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 COMMENTARY. " Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry Friend—and...
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Noctes Atticæ, or Reveries in a garret; containing observations on men and ...

Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...strongest bias 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 souls, we find, What wants in blood and spirit!t, swell'd with wind. Pride, where wit fails, steps...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...strongest bias rules, la pride, the never-failing rice of foole. Whatever nature has in worth denied. 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...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...strongest bias 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 souls, we find What wants m blood, and spirits, swell'd with win* Pride, where wit fails, steps in...
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