“And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"The Devil's Thoughts", st. 6 (1799)
“He passed a cottage with a double coach-house,
A cottage of gentility;
And he owned with a grin
That his favorite sin
Is pride that apes humility.”
St. 8. Compare: "And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin / Is pride that apes humility", Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts. <br class="br"> The Devil's Walk http://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/shelley/devil/devil.rs1860.html (1799)
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