 | Erasmus Darwin - Science - 2007 - 25 pages
...unfold the swelling Net, We too together beat the ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield, Eye Nature's Walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise. But however you may perhaps defend yourself with Homer's Line 80[?], (£TI TI 0u|joi eSuero SCUTOS... | |
 | John Sainsbury - History - 2006 - 326 pages
...where I desire that my Valour and Vigour may be most shewn', Wilkes wrote in the preface. The lines Together let us beat this ample field, / Try what the open, what the covert yield', are unchanged from Alexander Pope's exhortation to study God's plan, but what follows suggests a different... | |
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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... 
