 | 1835 - 74 lapas
...Learn from the beasts the physic of the fields ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn from the mole to plough, the worm to weave"; Learn of the...Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.'' CRUELTY TO INSECTS. [From Dr. Percival.] POPS. A certain youth indulged himself in the cruel entertainment... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1835 - 234 lapas
...for the first hint of using sails in navigation. This is alluded to by Pope, in the following lines : Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. What the particular organization is which enables this animal to rise to the surface, or to sink to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 lapas
...the poison of serpents, are almost the only remaining groundwork of this poetic phantasm. POPE, I. D Learn of the little nautilus to sail ; Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale : Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : 180 Here... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 lapas
...directing mankind to the providence of God, as the true source of all their wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. It is easy to parody those lines, so as to give them an accommodation and suitableness to the present... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 lapas
...directing mankind to the providence of God, as the true source of all their wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. It is easy to parody those lines, so as to give them an accommodation and suitableness to the present... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 lapas
...from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food thc thickets yield ; •irn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts...sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of so'cial union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : 180 Here subterranean... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1836 - 382 lapas
...this was the shell of the nautilus. " Ha !" cried Rosamond, " how glad I am to see the nautilus ! " ' Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' " But, ma'am, how does the nautilus sail ? Where is the thin oar? I do not see any thing here like... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 380 lapas
...directing mankind to the providence of God as the true source of all their wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. It is easy to parody these lines, so as to give them an accommodation and suitableness to the present... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 lapas
...directing mankind to the providence of God, as the true source of all their wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. It is easy to parody those lines, so as to give them an accommodation and suitableness to the present... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1833 - 594 lapas
...breadth ; while the Rotundata of the Mediterranean is sometimes 2 feet long. T. Linn. 301, 2. 51 The arta of building from the Bee receive ; Learn of the Mole,...sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Essay on Man, Ep. 3. Its animal is a Saspia or Clio, and inhabits the Mediterranean and Indian Seas.... | |
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Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field: Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the... 
