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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. "
The English Reader, Or, Pieces of Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ... - Page 202
by Lindley Murray - 1825 - 264 pages
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 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...mighty void of sense : If once right reason drives that clond away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not yourself; but your defects to know,...
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La Belle Assemblée, Volume 5

1808 - 408 pages
...of sense. If oiicc right reason driven that cloud away; Truth breaks upon us with resistless «lay. Trust not yourself; but, your defects to know, Make...ev'ry friend — and ev'ry foe. A little learning is и dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : There shallow draughts intoxicate...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 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. If once riglit reason drives that clond away, Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not yourself;...
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Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six ...

John Sabine - 1810 - 308 pages
...What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd -with wind : Pride, where wk fails, steps in to our de&nce, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. If once...ev'ry friend and ev'ry foe. A little learning is- a dang'rous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Ifterian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 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...yourself ; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning is a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or lasts not the...
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Poems

Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 pages
...wind : pride, where wit fails steps iu to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense! 210 if once right reason drives that cloud away, truth...ev'ry friend— and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thing; 215 drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...What wants hi blood and spirits, twell'd with wind : Pride where Wit fails, steps in to our defeuce, And fills up all the mighty void of sense. If once...yourself ; but, your defects to know, Make use of every friend — and every foe. A little learning it a dangerous thing ! Drink deep, or taste not the...
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The Hive: Or, A Collection of Thoughts on Civil, Moral, Sentimental and ...

1810 - 234 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...Truth breaks upon us with resistless day. Trust not yourselves, but your defects tO'know, Make use of ev'ry friend and ev'ry foe. He who thinks no man...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 16

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 656 pages
...wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, And tills up all the mighty void of sense ! If once right reason...breaks upon us with resistless day ; Trust not yourself by your defects to know, Make use of tsv'ry friend— and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dang'rons...
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Poems by Cowley, Waller, Butler, Denham, Dryden, and Pomfret, Issues 77-79

Abraham Cowley - 1810 - 314 pages
...all the mighty void of sense: 210 if ohce right reason drives that cloud away, (ruth breaks upon 113 with resistless day. Trust not yourself; but, your...ev'ry friend— and ev'ry foe. A little learning is a dang'rous thing; 215 iMnk deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate...
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