 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind: Pride, whrre Wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all...not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing! Drink deep, or taste not the... | |
 | Edward J. Hallock - 1854 - 260 pages
...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. 2. If once right reason drives that cloud away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...of wit these lose their common sense, And then turns critics in their own defence." — I. 28, 29. " Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And fills up all the mighty void of scnse."-4. 209, 10. " Some by old words to fame have made pretence, Ancients in phrase, mere moderns... | |
 | Louisa W. Ogden Turner - 1856 - 220 pages
...pride ; For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find What wants in blood and spirits swell'd with wind j Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And...not yourself, but your defects to know, Make use of every friend and every foe. * Alexander Pope. A little learning is a dangerous thing, Drink deep,,... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pages
...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 pages
...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 1 80. Modes te, & circumspecto judicio de tantis viris pronunciandum est, ne quod (quod plerisque... | |
 | H. P. Blavatsky - 1994 - 1712 pages
...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... | |
 | Daniel J. Boorstin - 1996 - 289 pages
...a The consent of one's neighbour was the stamp of truth. In his "Essay on Criticism," Pope advised: Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe.* Since the new philosophy, rooting all ideas in experience, had encouraged the study of history and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1998 - 260 pages
...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... | |
 | Herb Galewitz - 1999 - 68 pages
...but not shunning it either, if he deems it best. PLUTARCH Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear. Trust not yourself; but your defects to know, Make use of ev'ry friend— and ev'ry foe. There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship; and, indeed, friendship itself is only... | |
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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. 
