 | William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 pages
...never-failing voiee of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large reeruits of needful that their gay wardrobe wear, When first the white-thom...Sueh, Lyeidas, thy loss to shepherd's ear. Where were tails, steps in to our defenee, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. If onee right reason drives... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...and Hectors, till they meet with an Achilles. Our great moral poet says, or rather sings, of them, What the weak head with strongest bias rules Is pride,...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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 286 pages
...lovely in our minds, As on our smiling eyes his servant sun. — THOMSON. SECTION III. On pride. I 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 268 pages
...as lovely in our minds, As on our smiling eyes his servant sun. — THOMSON. SECTION III. On pride. OF all the causes, which conspire to blind Man's erring...strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of foola. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in larje recruits of needful pride ! For, as... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 224 pages
...smiling eyes his servant sun.—THOMSON. SECTION III. On Pride. 1. OF all the causes, which conspire tn blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,...never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, 2. If once right reason drives thtit cloud away, Truth bveaks upon us with resistless day.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gjves in large recruits ot needful pride ; For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What...wind* Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, Ami fills up all the mighty void of sense. 2> If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks... | |
 | 1826 - 82 pages
...ought never to have a stress, though placed in that part of the verse where the ear expects an accent. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride ; the never failing vice of fools. Pope. An injudicious reader of verse would be very apt to lay stress upon... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1826 - 242 pages
...drunken sailor on a mast, Ready, with every nod, to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. 11. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride. 12. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...never-failing vice of fools*. AVnatever nature has in worth deny'd', She gives in large recruits ofneedfid pride* ! For', as in bodies', thus in souls'- we find...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 breaks... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 pages
...THOMSON SECTION III. l3 On pride. 1. OF all the causes, which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest...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... | |
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OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 
