 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...writes) To teach vain wits a science little known, To admire superior sense, and doubt their own ! п. OP he future and the Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ; For as in bodies,... | |
 | John Comly - 1834 - 226 pages
...all that's worth a wish, a thought, Fair virtue gives unbrib'd, unbought." " Of ail the causes, that conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide...weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1840 - 270 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 judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak hend with strongest bias rules, fs pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1842 - 262 pages
...as lovely in our minds,' As on our smiling eyes his servant suu. — THOMPSON SECTION III. On Pride. OF all the causes, which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguid the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride ; the never failing vice of... | |
 | My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 pages
...especially in young persons ; and an English poet has put his branding mark upon it in these lines : — " ' Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools : Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needless pride; For, as in bodies,... | |
 | Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...conhece, De apreciar talentos superiores, E com modéstia duvidar dos próprios. TOMO V. c • li. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Prick, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever Nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...the annexed couplet, the first line commences with two short syllables, succeeded by two long ones : What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. And in the following line : From the third heaVn where God resides. To read such lines as these in... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...superior sense, and doubt their own ! IMPEDIMENTS TO THE ATTAINMENT OF JCST TASTE. Or all the causes1 which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and...mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride,2 the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...praise of good-nature, ver. 508, &c. When severity is chiefly to be used by the critics, ver. 526, &c. OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride ; the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ! For as in bodies,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...To teach vain Wits a science little known, T" admire superior sense, and doubt their own ! 200 II. OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, COMMENTARY. Ver. 200. 7" admire superior sense, and doubt their own !] This line concludes the first... | |
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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. 
