 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pàgines
...! For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : 60 Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And...not yourself, but your defects to know, Make use of eveiy friend — and every foe. 65 Fir'd at first sight with what the muse imparts, In fearless youth... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1832 - 260 pàgines
...wind Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 2 If once right reason drives that cloud aw.ay, Truth...to know, Make use of ev'ry friend— and ev'ry foe. t ^ ! A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1833 - 738 pàgines
...mini), What the weak head with strangest bias rules Is IMI ш :•-, the never-railing vie* of fool«. " PRIDE, where wit fails, steps in to our defence And...mighty void of sense : If once right reason drives that clond away, TRUTH breaks tipon us with resistless day," POPE'S ESSAY ON MAN. Of all the vices, theie... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 378 pàgines
...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. 210 504 Pride, the never- falling vice of fools. The evil of false confidence to the poet is, that... | |
 | James Paul Cobbett - 1835 - 232 pàgines
...o'er our arms. Inscriptionl here of various names I view'd, The greater part by hostile time subdu'd. Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. There, my retreat the best companions grace. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 pàgines
...: Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, Л nd (ills up all the mighty void of sense. 210 han death, eternal shame. His generous sense he not in vain imparts every friend — and every foe. Л little learning is a dangerous thing ! 1 >riuk deep, or taste not... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1836 - 264 pàgines
...wind. Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. 2 If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth...not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use ofev'ry friend — and ev'ryfoe. A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink <}eep, or taste not... | |
 | the christians - 1836 - 426 pàgines
...vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. Lnndon : Printed by JAMES 8. HODSON, »t liii re»idenft, N.15, Cro«« Street, nation Uarikn. and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 pàgines
...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. 210 If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pàgines
...What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defeuce, ling on the floating tides : While melting music steals...the zephyrs gently play, Belinda smiled, and all the every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the... | |
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If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not yourself; but your defects to know Make use of every friend — and every foe. 
