Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought; The men who labour and digest things most Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, Twill cost you dear before he 's... Tales of a tourist - Seite 162von Alicia Lefanu - 1823Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| H. L. Sidney Lear - 1882 - 204 Seiten
...down : My blushing Muse with conscious fear retires, And whom they like implicitly admires. ****** Pride (of all others the most dangerous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. The men who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast : For if your author... | |
| Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 Seiten
...mushroom which starts up in a night ; his first business is to forget himself, and then his friends. Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought. There is no vice more insupportable and more universally hated than pride. It is a kind of poison which... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 Seiten
...; How justly then will impious mortals fall, Whose pride would soar to heaven without a call ? 160 Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought ; The men who labour and digest things most Will be much apter to despond than boast. For if your author... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 Seiten
...They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in. 4029 Goldsmith : Haunch of Venison. Line 9. Pride (of all others the most dangerous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. The men who labor and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast. 4030 Roscommon... | |
| W. H. Davenport Adams - 1885 - 434 Seiten
...guide; How justly then will impious mortals fall, When pride would soar to heaven without a call ? Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought." It is something of surprise to find a writer in Charles II.'s reign putting forward a plea on behalf... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1889 - 536 Seiten
...pride! What eagles are we still In matters that belong to other men! What beetles in our own! 143. Pride— of all others the most dangerous fault — Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. The men who labor and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast. 144There is nothing... | |
| 1889 - 532 Seiten
...Whai eagles are we still In matters that belong to other men! What beetles in our own! 143Pride — of all others the most dangerous fault — Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. The men who labor and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast. 144. There is nothing... | |
| Caroline Louisa Hunt - 1891 - 118 Seiten
...that comes and goes, And that all proud flesh, wherever it grows, Is subject to irritation. JG SAXK. Pride (of all others the most dangerous fault) Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought. ROSCOMMON. Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one... | |
| 1891 - 556 Seiten
...are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one. Archbishop Trench. SOURCE OF. Pride (of all others the most dangerous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. ltu*cuinmon. SULLENNESS OF. Defeated, but not dismayed, — crushed to the earth, but not humiliated,... | |
| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 518 Seiten
...guide. Huw justly then will impious murtals fall, Whose pride would soar to heaven without a call ( Pride — of all others the most dangerous fault — Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. The men who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast ; Fur if your author... | |
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