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... Essai sur l'homme - Pagina 2door Alexander Pope - 1850 - 82 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pagina’s
...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... | |
| George Wingrove Cooke - 1836 - 486 pagina’s
...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...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 - 1836 - 332 pagina’s
...field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; • • % ' The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar;...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 - 1836 - 502 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 see, for a Pope to be a philosopher. Thus, then, while princes and potentates... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 " tight fit," as the monkey observed when he wag in a delicate situation. " They... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pagina’s
...this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; The Intent tracts, the giddy heights, 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 - 1843 - 830 pagina’s
...this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; The latent tracts, the giddy heights, om 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 pagina’s
...this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; 101 The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore, Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar...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... | |
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