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
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 130 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...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 know ? Of man, what see... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 pages
...promiscuous shoot ;4 Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.' 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 ;™ 1 This exordinm relates to the whole work, first in general, then in particular. The 6th, 7th,... | |
| 1872 - 660 pages
...this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert, yield ; The latent tracts, the giddy hights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar...to man. I. Say first, of God above, or man below, AVhat can we reason but from what we know ? Of man, what see we but his station here, From which to... | |
| John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1872 - 538 pages
...Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the coverts yield ; The latent tracks, the giddy heights explore, Of all who blindly creep,...candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man."—ED. mortal life into a necessity of sadness and malcontent, by laws commanding over the unreducible... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - 884 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,... | |
| J. W. M. Breazeale - 1842 - 266 pages
...Together let us beat this ample field; Try what the open, what the covert yield; The latent tracks, the giddy heights explore, Of all who blindly creep...soar; Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies," Lash evil " manners living us they rise, Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate... | |
| John Halperin - 1975 - 352 pages
...of Letters, Letter the Second) The context in the original must have been congenial to the novelist: Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch...rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can. (These lines are a better introduction to Jane Austen's novels than to the 'specious' and 'solemn'... | |
| Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 pages
...promiscuous shoot, 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. (Essay on Man, i, lines 6- 16) Milton's Paradise as "scene of Man" becomes a gentleman's estate and... | |
| William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 pages
...or intellect, you will at least show your taste and value for what is excellent. —William Hazlitt Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch...where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. — Alexander Pope I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. —... | |
| John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 pages
...promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield', The latent...explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar. (Ill.i. 11-Í3) The passage employs a various landscape as a metaphor of the human condition; yet the... | |
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