The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore, Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar ; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 218by Alexander Pope - 1869 - 485 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar ; Eye nature's walk, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living...rise : Laugh where we must, be candid where we can ; 15 But vindicate the ways of God to man.2 I. Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason,... | |
| 1852 - 874 pages
...promiscuous snoot Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit, Together let us beat this ample field, Try (p * soai , Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pages
...forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ! 10 The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all...rise : Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; 15 But vindicate the ways of God to man. I. Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason,... | |
| Henry Moses - 1853 - 370 pages
...lonely upon the ancient shores of Hindostan. CHAPTER VII. " Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; The latent...flies, And catch the manners living as they rise." PECUNIARY circumstances would not always admit of my keeping a tattoo, or palanquin, so my out-door... | |
| 1853 - 566 pages
...experience and the careful art of Henry Esmond, but shall, like Vanity Fair, have its own aim : — " The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore, Of all...flies, And catch the manners living as they rise." There is no great writer living who affords a stronger proof of the danger of disregarding the Horatian... | |
| Eli Bowen - 1854 - 528 pages
...forbidden fruit. Together let us roam this ample field — Try what the open, what the covert yield; Bye Nature's walks — shoot folly as it flies, And catch...Laugh where we must — be candid where we can, But always vindicate the ways of Ood to man ! ROM Philadelphia to Pottsville, Tamaqua and Mauch Chunk,... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 pages
...flowers promiscuous Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield! The latent tracts,...where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know1? Of man, what see... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; 10 The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all...candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to Man.1 1 • Vindicate the ways, ' &c. : borrowed from Milton. I. Say first, of God above, or Man below,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 pages
...Line 5. Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. Line 13. Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, ' And...where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.* Line 88. A hero perish or a sparrow fall. Line 95. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 pages
...forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; 10 The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all...walks, shoot folly; as it flies,( And catch the manners livibg-as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to... | |
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