 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pagina’s
...writes) To teach vain wits a science little known, To admire superior sense, and doubt their own ! п. OP he future and the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large recruits of needful... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 pagina’s
...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...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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...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 needful... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Charles SANDYS - 1847 - 74 pagina’s
...errors to their proper source, the innate weakness, corruption, and depravity of the human heart. " Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and mislead the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride, the never-failing vice of... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pagina’s
...SHAKSPEARE. 2. One whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and mislead the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is Pride — that never-failing vice... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pagina’s
...severity is chiefly to he used hy the critics, ver. 526, &c. OF all the causes which conspire to hlind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest hias rules, Is pride ; the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives... | |
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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. 
