 | 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 - Chartism - 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!... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...prais« of pond-nature, ver. 506, &r. \Vhen severity is elm-fly to be used by llie critics, ver. 53k Ax. OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the \veuk head with strongest bias rules, Is pride; the never- fail ing vice of fools. Whatever nature... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...writes) To teach vain Wits a Science little known, T' admire Superior Sense, and doubt their own! 200 Of all the Causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...misguide the Mind, What the weak Head with strongest Byass rules, Is Pride, the never-failing Vice of Fools. Whatever Nature has in Worth deny'd, 205 She... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1881 - 468 pages
...the second part, the poet and critic are reminded that — " Of all the causes which conspire to bind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What...rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools." and that when the student has once entered upon a literary career he must not be content with a mere... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...gloriously offend, And rise to faults true Critics dare not mend. Pope then goes on in Part II to show the Causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind. Pride, imperfect learning ("A little learning is a dangerous thing . . ."), judging by the parts instead... | |
 | Vassilis Lambropoulos, David Neal Miller - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 552 pages
...familiar catalog (already given vivid expression in, among other places, Pope's Essay on Criticism: "Of all the causes which conspire to blind / Man's erring judgment and misguide the mind") with an analogy, also a commonplace of the tradition, between "the perfect beauty," as agreed upon... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1998 - 260 pages
...writes) To teach vain wits a science litde known, T'admire superior sense, and doubt their own! 200 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 deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride; For as in bodies,... | |
 | Martin H. Manser - Religion - 2001 - 524 pages
...unprofitable it is. Richard Newton The most serious sin is one of thought, the sin of pride. Paul VI Of all the causes which conspire to blind / Man's...rules. / Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Alexander Pope Pride is the idolatrous worship of ourselves, and that is the national religion of hell.... | |
 | Dan Mayer - Medical - 2004 - 402 pages
...Epidemiology: a Basic Science for Clinical Medicine. (2nd edn.) Boston: Little Brown, 1991. Sources of bias Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...mind; What the weak head with strongest bias rules, 1s pride, the never- failing vice of fools. Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism Learning... | |
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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. 
