A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations / Consisting of Choice Passages from the Sacred Poetry of All Ages and Countries, Classified and Arranged, for Facility of Reference, Under Subject Headings; Illustrated by Striking Passages from Scripture, and Forming Altogether a Complete Book of Devotional Poetry.

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And murder and deceit, and every birth

Of damned sort, were progeny of pride.

Pollok.

What if his very virtues

Had pampered his swol’n heart, and made him proud?

And what if pride had duped him into guilt?

Coleridge.

If thou be one whose heart the holy form

Of young imagination hath kept pure,

Stranger! henceforth be warn’d, and know that pride,