 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the nc\cr-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth denied, She wicked wizard saw, WithsiiiUienspringheleap'duponthemstraight, And, souls we find [wind: \\ hat wants in blood and spirits, swell'n with Pride, where \A it fails, steps... | |
 | John Sabine - Elocution - 1810 - 308 pages
...bias rules, Is pride, the ne\7er failing vice of fools. Whatever nature lias 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 wk fails, steps in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 656 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, [wind: What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with Pride, where wit fails, steps in... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1810 - 234 pages
...strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 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 spirits, swell'd with wind. Pride, where wit fails, steps into... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...bias rules, is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd JOi she gives in large recruits of needful pride : for as in bodies thus in souls we find wfiat wants in blood and spirits swell'd with wind: pride, where wit fatts s\.e\« \v\Vo... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 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 iu blood and spirits swell'd with wind : pride, where wit fails steps iu... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with windPride, 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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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. 
