| Lindley Murray - 1837 - 276 pages
...smiling eyes his servant sun.—THOMSON. SECTION III; OF all the-causes, which conspire to blind Man'a erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the 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... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1838 - 316 pages
...be spoken. Take this couplet from Pope, and read it first with the metrical accent and tone, thus ; What the weak head, with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. Now let it be observed that in these lines there is really hut one emphatic word, namely pride. If... | |
| 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...rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride." " 'Tis now the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...wits a science little known, To admire superior sense, and doubt their own ! п. OP all the causes he never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needful... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...be spoken. Take this couplet from Pope, and read it first with the metrical accent and tone, thus ; What the weak head, with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. Now let it be observed that in these lines there is really hut one emphatic word, namely pride. If... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1840 - 270 pages
...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 - 1842 - 262 pages
...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 fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful pride ! For, as in bodies,... | |
| My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 pages
...; 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 judgment, and...weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools : Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needless... | |
| Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena e Lencastre Alorna (Marquesa de) - 1844 - 884 pages
...apreciar talentos superiores, E com modéstia duvidar dos próprios. TOMO V. c • li. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and...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... | |
| 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... | |
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