 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar; Eye Nature's works, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid were we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. 1. Say first,... | |
 | John Walker - Elocution - 1823 - 406 pages
...the word as, either in the first or second line of the following couplet, ought to have no stress. Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch; the manners living as they rise. Pope. The last syllable of the word excellent, in the following couplet, being the place of the... | |
 | Proverbs, Spanish - 1823 - 406 pages
...doing we do not subject ourselves to any inconvenience or injurious expence. " .Eye nature's walk, shoot folly as it flies, " And catch the manners living as they rise." POPE. Comer arena antes que hacer villeza.^-" To eat sand rather than commit a base action."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...yield ; 10 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 ; 15 But vindicate the ways of God to Man. NOTES.... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...covert yield, The latent tracks, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soarj 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. 3 Say first,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...yield ; 10 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 ; 15 But vindicate the ways of God to Man. NOTES.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...yield ; The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; not, when woman's transient breath is fled, That all her vanities at once are dea rise : Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. Say first,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 692 pages
...rest. These two lines contain the main design that runs through the whole : " Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. " He afterwards drew in the plan much narrower than it was at first, and mentioned several of the particulars... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 694 pages
...rest. These two lines contain the main design that runs through the whole : " Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. " He afterwards drew in the plan much narrower than it was at first, and mentioned several of the particulars... | |
 | Thomas Lowndes - 1825 - 590 pages
...yield — The latent tracks, the giddy height 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. — POPS. LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.... | |
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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. 
