| Bradford K. Mudge - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 298 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. (11. i-i6)18... | |
| Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - Reference - 2000 - 389 pages
...of rest, and Providence their guide. John Milton, Paradise Lost, XII, 646-7 u Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, i, 13 (1733) u Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.... | |
| John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 322 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. (1, lines... | |
| J. McLaverty - Authors and publishers - 2001 - 286 pages
...covert yield; The latent tracts or 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 WaysofGoo to Man. (t.9-i6l The... | |
| John H. Timmerman - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 212 pages
...as Pope would have had us believe when he stated his purpose in Essay on Man: Laugh where we must; be candid where we can; But vindicate the Ways of God to Man.-' That vindication, for Pope, occurred through the rational intellect that could in fact ascend to and... | |
| Joseph Warton - 2004 - 440 pages
...drawn from the field fports of fetting and (hooting, feem below the dignity of the fubjedt; efpecially, EYE nature's walks, SHOOT folly as it flies, And CATCH the manners living as they RISE. 2. But vindicate the ways of God to man. This line is taken from Milton ; And juftify the ways... | |
| 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... | |
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