 visa fuisset. In the words of Pope (" Essay on Criticism ") : " 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.  Selections from Ovid - Seite 263von Ovid - 1897 - 444 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1164 Seiten
...Thatwith weak wings, &C. Of all the caufes which confpire to blind Man's erring judgment, and mifguide 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, 205 She gives in large recruits of needful Pride! For as in bodies,... | |
 | John Walker - 1801 - 424 Seiten
...though placed in that part of the verse where the ear expects an-accent. EXAMPLE. Of all the caflses which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and...weak head with strongest bias rules, , Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. Pope. An injudicious reader of verse would be very. apt to lay a stress... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 236 Seiten
...wril To teach vain wits a science little known, T" admire superior sense, and doubt their own PART II. 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, 205 She gives in large recruits of needlful pride : For as in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 218 Seiten
...science little known, T' admire superior sense, and doubt their own! .^ft oJ r. ,01 .01.* PART II. 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,... | |
 | Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1805 - 432 Seiten
...disappointment, Ke will have the comfort to know, that, as they make him humble, they will make him wise. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. POPE. It is said, that Mortimer used to lament his having received the premium of the gold medal from... | |
 | Edward Dayes, Edward Wedlake Brayley - 1805 - 422 Seiten
...disappointment, he he will have the comfort to know, that, as they make him humble, they will make him wise. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of fooli. POPE. It is said, that Mortimer used to lament his having received the premium of the gold medal... | |
 | 1809 - 488 Seiten
...spirit.—Envy.—Against envy, and in jtraise of good-nature.—When severity is chiefly to be used by ctttica. /"\F 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1810 - 312 Seiten
...writes) tr> teach vain wits a science little known, t' admire superior sense, and doubt their own 1 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1810 - 262 Seiten
...shines as lovely in our minds, As on our smiling eyes his servant sun. Thomps SECTION III. ON PRIDE. 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,... | |
 | John Walker - 1810 - 394 Seiten
...ought never to have a stress, though placed in that part of Tie verse where the ear expects an accent. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...rules, Is pride ; the never-failing vice of fools. Pope. An injudicious reader of verse would be very apt to lay a stress upon the article the in the... | |
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