| John Milton - 1848 - 540 pages
...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 God to man." — ED. mortal life into a necessity of sadness and malcontent, by laws commanding over the unreducible... | |
| Archibald Alison - Great Britain - 1848 - 462 pages
...Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man." Had Bolingbroke's steadiness of principle and consistency 20. of conduct been equal to these shining... | |
| English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise : Laugh where we must, he candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. I. Say, first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, Aid catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can ; But vindicate the ways of God to Man. I, Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pages
...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 God to man. I. Say first, of God above, or Man below, What can we reason , but from what we know? Of Man , what... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...walks, shoot folly as it flics, And catch the manners living as they rise : Laugh where we must, he candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. I. Say first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know ? Of man, what... | |
| Archibald Alison - Great Britain - 1852 - 552 pages
...Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man, A mighty maze ! but not without a plan ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man." CHAP. Had Boliugbroke's steadiness of principle and con"' sistency of conduct been equal to these shining... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise Laugh where we must, ~n * I. Say, first, of God above, or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know t Of man, what... | |
| Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...similar instance is also observable with respect to the lines of Pope and Milton : "Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man ; " for in " Paradise Lost," we have the same idea in almost the identical phraseology : "And justify... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...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 God to man.* Line 88. A hero perish or a sparrow fall. Line 95. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never... | |
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