 | Publius Cornelius Tacitus - 1831 - 364 страници
...does not proceed from a full and rich constitution, but from mere infirmity : for As in bodies, thus in souls we find, What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind. 1 Pliny declares, without ceremony, that he was ashamed of the corrupt effeminate style that disgraced... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 страници
...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 : 60 Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. If... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1833 - 738 страници
...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 страници
...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,...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... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 страници
...wind : Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense, And fills up all the mighty void of sense : no If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth...not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 страници
...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,...Defence, And fills up all the mighty Void of Sense\ 210 1 80. Modes te, & circumspecto judicio de tantis viris pronunciandum est, ne quod (quod plerisque... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - 1994 - 1712 страници
...begin, and the future pages of history may contain full evidence, and convey full proof that CHAPTER II "Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence And fills up all the mighty void of sense — POPE, Essay on Criticism, 209. "But why should the operations of nature be changed? There may be... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 страници
...of needful pride; For as in bodies, thus 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. 210 If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not... | |
 | Hannah Barker, David Vincent - 2001 - 394 страници
...been neglected. Perhaps vanity prompted the production:- But, it should have been recollected, that "Pride, where Wit fails, steps in to our defence, "And fills up all the mighty void of sense." I am, Gentlemen, Your faithful Servant, A TRUE BLUE. 3rd. Dec., 1806 Tregortha, Printer. Burslem. 1807.1... | |
 | Don Fowler - 2002 - 550 страници
...4 and 2. 1i.7, and for cura as a cloud Hauser (1954) 53 n. 6). Cf. Pope Essay on Criticism 210-1 1: If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day, where the military metaphors predominate. naturae species ratioque : a complex phrase, susceptible... | |
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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. 
