 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...PRIDE : " For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind." What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride,...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 640 pages
...conspire to hlind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest hias rules, Is pride ; the never-failing vice of fools....has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ! For as in hodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in hlood and spirits, swell'd with... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...writes), To teach vain wits a science little known, To admire superior sense, and doubt their own ! n. Or all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...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... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - 1849 - 262 pages
...reproach, "Long hast thou wander'd in a stranger's land A stranger to thyself and to thy God." Pride. 1. ; Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 1Whatever nature has in worth denied She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For, as in bodies,... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 300 pages
...enervating spell, which all who would hope to live a virtuous and beneficent life must studiously avoid. " Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride ; the never-failing vice of fools." Human character of the first order is analogous to a Grecian temple, perhaps the most exquisite production... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...strange, stiff title for a poein !' readers possessed with the modern flippant taste would exclaim : " Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...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... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...strange, stiff title for a poem !' readers possessed with the modern flippant taste would exclaim : "Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...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... | |
 | 1850 - 640 pages
...actions the most vicious. 2. Pride is a very common source of infidelity. Pope has well observed that, " Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools." There is certainly no vice which exercises a more deleterious influence over the human understanding... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...no accent or ltress, though placed in that part of the verse where the ear requires it. EXAMPLES. 1. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 2. Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller and stronger than the weeds they shade. S. Eye... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...strange, stift" title for a poem !' readers possessed with the modern flippant taste would exclaim : "Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing viee of fools. Whatever nature lias in worth dciiy'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride!... | |
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