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
 | George Wingrove Cooke - Great Britain - 1836 - 486 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 or...where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to man. The result of the meditations of the poet and the philosopher upon the scene thus proposed for their... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...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...candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to roan. I. Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what w« know : X Of man,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...open, what the covert yield ; 10 The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore, Of all who hlindly this universal slander, it sufficed to show what contemptible...it. He was not without hopes, that, by manifestin he candid where we cm, But vindicate the ways of God to man. I. Say first, of God ahove, or man helow,... | |
 | 518 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 or sightless soar ; Eye Nature's walk — shoot folly as it flies — And catch the manners living as they rise !" It is possible, you... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; The latent tracts, the giddy heights, exploro ( >f T babes, her infants at the breast, shall fall : Л...dreadful lesson of exampled fate, To warn the nation» an liviiig as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1854 - 522 pages
...let ns 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 !" fortune has been a... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; The Intent tracts, the To the misled and lonely traveller! 200 23 Of calling...shapes, and beckoning shadow» dire, And aery tongu flics, And catch the manners living as they rise : Laugh where we must, be candid where we con ; But... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; The latent tracts, the ft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity K.^igns L Say, first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; 101 The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore, Of all who blindly creep,...rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, 15 iut vindicate the ways of God to man. ^*r I. Say first, of God above, or man below, .Vhat can we... | |
 | Frederick Chamier - 1844 - 800 pages
...are bound therefore to grasp the present for a sketchy portraiture before it is gone, in short, to " shoot folly as it flies, and catch the manners living as they rise." CHAPTER XI. THB JENKINSONS. Me miserable, which way shall I fly. MILTOB. " YES, my dear I do think... | |
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