 | Alexander Pope - 1843 - 50 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 see we... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 pages
...covert yield; 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 God to Man. (Essay on... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 pages
...or intellect, you will at least show your taste and value for what is excellent. —William Hazlitt 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 God to man. — Alexander... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...all this scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; (Fr. Epistle I) 59 Laugh where we must, FaFP; ON; OBNV; OxBChV Pippa Passes 66 (Fr. Epistle I) 60 Say first, of God above, or Man below, What can we reason, but from what we know?... | |
 | Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - 1993 - 296 pages
...covert yield; 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. . .l2 In its migration from renaissance Italy to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain,... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 pages
...covert yield; 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. (I, 9-14) 42 'The Second Satire of the Second Book of Horace Paraphrased', in Poems, ed. Butt,... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 364 pages
...covert yield; 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;.. .1 8 Here Pope commits himself to a direction he knew as early as 1712 he should take but which... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 412 pages
...yield ; 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 God to man." The central... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan. 8890 An Essay on Man shall never want attentive and favourable hearers. HOOPER Ellen Sturgis 1816-1841 rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. 8891 An Essay... | |
 | Brian L. Silver - 2000 - 553 pages
...Europe in translation, was typical in this respect. In it Pope says that we will "Laugh where we may, be candid where we can, / But vindicate the ways of God to man." He then goes on to speak very much of man and very little of God. A deist would have felt reasonably... | |
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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 God to man. 
