 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 - Page 12by Alexander Pope - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...what see we, but his station here, From which to reason, or to which refer ? 20 The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or...rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, 15 But vindicate the ways of God to man. What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - Ethics - 1818 - 430 pages
...all the circumstances of the case would excite in a benevolent mind ; let us smile where we may, *' Be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man." As there are seasons in every man's life, owing to causes internal and external, when gloomy thoughts... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ! The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore, Of all who blindly creep, or...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... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 484 pages
...example, must have the accent upon the first syllables, and not upon the last, as the verse requires : F f Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise. Their praise is still the stile is excellent; The sense they humbly take upon content. False eloquence... | |
 | Wales - 1853 - 1164 pages
..."Eye Nature's walk*, ehoot folly as it flics, And catch Hie manners living as they rise ; Laugh U'hcrc we must, be candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to man." — POFE. "Na farnwch, ac ni'ch bernir; canys a pha fut u y bcrnwch y'ch bernir." — IBBÜ. " Gwir... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 424 pages
...must have the accent upon the first syllables, and not upon the last* as the verse requires : • F f Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living us they rise. Their praise is still the stile is excellent ; The sense they humbly take upon content.... | |
 | Nice distinctions - Irish fiction - 1820 - 354 pages
...about us, and to die) • * * * 1 • • " * * -,. • ?. " « - ,* * * * Kye nature's walk% slioot folly as it flies, . And catch the manners living...where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to man.' SUMMER had again unfolded its charms, when Colonel and Mrs. Lindsay, together with Caroline and Harriet... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...fruits trompeurs, Sol fécond, et mêlé de ronces et dé fleurs. The latent tracts, the giddy heighls explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar;...where we can , But vindicate the ways of God to Man. r. // I. Say first, of God above, or Man below, What can we reason , but from what we know ? Of Man,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 252 pages
...let us beat this ample field , Try what the open , what the covert yield ; The latent tracts , the giddy heights , explore Of all who blindly creep ,...Laugh where we must , be candid where we can ; But \indicatc the ways of God to Man. SUR L'HOMME. PITRE PREMIÈRE. IXÉVEILLE-TOI , mylord , laisse au... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...Together let us beat this ample field, Try whatthe open, what the covert yield ? 10 The latent tracts, the giddy heights "explore Of all who blindly creep, or...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,... | |
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