 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield; 10 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 But vindicate the ways of God to Man. COMMENTARY. The Poet tells us next (line 16th) with what... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 546 pages
...Riches ; and so of the 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... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 pages
...beat 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. (Essay on Man, i, lines 6- 16) Milton's Paradise as "scene of Man" becomes a gentleman's estate and... | |
 | 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...where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. — Alexander Pope I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. —... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; (Fr. Epistle I) 59 LPL; FaBoBe; FaBoCh; 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
...beat 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;...flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. . .l2 In its migration from renaissance Italy to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, a crucial... | |
 | Colin Nicholson - 1994 - 252 pages
...beat 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;...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, pp.... | |
 | Dennis Todd - 1995 - 366 pages
...beat 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;...flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise; . . ." Here Pope commits himself to a direction he knew as early as 1712 he should take but which he... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 412 pages
...this ample field, Try what the open, what the coverts 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 central principle was PBOGBESS. This principle is the " Philosopher's Stone," which converts all... | |
 | 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....dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that 8891 An Essay on Man Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns. 8892... | |
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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... 
