 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 Seiten
...peril's | darkest | hour. And so, also, of a*, in the following: Eye | nature's | walks ;"* | shoot"1 | folly | "•as it | flies, And | catch the | manners | living | "• as they | rise. following couplet, being in a part of the line where a heavy syllable most commonly occurs, may draw... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 698 Seiten
...cohasrentia, connexa, concatenata sint." — M. MINUTIUS FELIX, xvii. [" Together let us beat this nuiple field, Try what the open, what the covert yield ; The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore." POPE'* Essay on Man.] HAVING already [in VI. 289. to 308.] developed the principal bearings of this... | |
 | James Holman - 1834 - 386 Seiten
...opportunities which presented themselves, and my personal disadvantages would admit of; in short, to "Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise." I was apprised by a porter, at three o'clock, that the voiture was in readiness, and after bustling... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - 1976 - 164 Seiten
...aspects that yield examples of both Folly and Morality, a promise that looks back to lines 1 1 and 12 The latent tracts, the giddy heights explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar - which could have been (and certainly includes) an allusion to the lower animals and reptiles, some... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 308 Seiten
...plan; A Wild, where weeds and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or Garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the...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 Man, i,... | |
 | Robert P. Maccubbin - 1987 - 276 Seiten
...Sexual intercourse becomes a hunting scene, a cynegetic metaphor fusing the chthonic and the vegetal: Together let us beat this ample Field, Try what the Open, what the Covert yield. The lateut [latent] Tracts, the pleasing Depths explore, And my Prick clapp'd where thousands were before,... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 372 Seiten
...will I trust. COVERT - God as Our Protector and Comforter Alexander Pope, in An Essay On Man, wrote Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield. Let us try to find out what the figure of God as our covert can yield. We read that King Ahaz removed... | |
 | William Safire, Leonard Safir - 1990 - 436 Seiten
...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 Pope... | |
 | John Dixon Hunt - 1992 - 414 Seiten
...plan; A Wild, where woods and flow'rs promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the...explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar. (Ill.i. 11-Í3) The passage employs a various landscape as a metaphor of the human condition; yet the... | |
 | Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell - 1993 - 296 Seiten
...us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man; A mightly maze! but not without plan. . . Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the...flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. . .l2 In its migration from renaissance Italy to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain, a crucial... | |
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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... 
