 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
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1826 - 82 pages
...the word as, either in the first or second line of the following couplet, ought to have no stress : Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as (hey rise. Ibid. The last syllable of the word excellent, in the following couplet, being the place... | |
 | Lucy Hake - Anecdotes - 1828 - 506 pages
...estate. Such was the result of Frivola's ridiculous eccentricities. 150 NUMBER XXIV. THOUGHTS ON ROMANCE. Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise. " WHAT a loss of time !" exclaimed Amelia, after turning over a few pages of a book she carelessly... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 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, or...where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. • „ 3 Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know; Of man... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...10 The latent tracta, the giddy heights, explore, Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar ; Kye ear The mournful message to Pelides' ear; For sure...Patroclus, is no more. But such a chief I spy not through Î. Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what... | |
 | 1854
...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 sightless soar ; Eye Nature's walk— shoot folly as it flies — And catch the manners living as they rise !" It is possible, you... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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 see... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...this ample field, Tr,y what the open^ what the covert yield; Th he latent tracts, the giddy heights Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye nature's...manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, b§ candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. I. Say first, of God above, or man below,... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...peril's | darkest | hour. And so, also, of a*, in the following: Eye | nature's | walks ;"* | shoot"1 | folly | "•as it | flies, And | catch the | manners | living | "• as they | rise. following couplet, being in a part of the line where a heavy syllable most commonly occurs, may draw... | |
 | James Holman - Europe - 1834 - 386 pages
...opportunities which presented themselves, and my personal disadvantages would admit of; in short, to "Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise." I was apprised by a porter, at three o'clock, that the voiture was in readiness, and after bustling... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...ambition,' and whose closing years exhibited the moat contemptibl* vacillations of public principle. Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch...where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to man. 16 i. Say, first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know ? Of man, what... | |
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