 | 1837 - 486 lapas
...trackless paths. " For thus to man the voice of nature spake, Go, from [he creatures thy instruction take, Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale."— Pors. In fine calm weather when the bosom of the sea is unruffled, the Argonauta is said to have been... | |
 | William Hamilton Drummond - 1838 - 246 lapas
...some of his magnificent birds. Pope has caught and amplified the idea with his usual felicity:— " Go: from the creatures thy instruction take: Learn...Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." Though imagination may lead farther in illustration of this topic than experience or fact will warrant,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1839 - 416 lapas
...while the rotundata of the Mediterranean is sometimes 2 feet lung. — T. Linn. p. 301, 302. * The arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the...sail. Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. . Essay on Man, Ep. 3. Its animal Is a stepia or clio, and inhabit!) the Mediterranean and Indian seas.... | |
 | 1838 - 866 lapas
...trackless paths. " For ihns to man the voice of nature spake. Go, from the creatures thy instruction take, Learn of the little Nautilus to sail. Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale."— Pope. In fine calm weather when the bosom of the sea is unruffled, the Argonauta is said to have been... | |
 | 1839 - 444 lapas
...to art ! To copy Instinct then was Reason's part ; Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake : — Go, from the creatures thy instruction take : Learn...Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." Essay on Man. V. THE NAUTILUS. THIS is a very curious shell-fish. The shell is so formed that it serves... | |
 | 1839 - 384 lapas
...expressed these thoughts in his Essay on Man, — ' Thus, then, to man the voice of Nature spake — Go, from the creatures thy instruction take : Learn...Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' Here for the present we must leave these delightful volumes, we shall however take an early opportunity... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1839 - 322 lapas
...navigation owes its origin. A fine poet gives them the honour of being teachers to the mariner : " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." The Chama-Gigas, or the Giant-Clam, is the largest of all the testaceous tribes. Linna;us mentions one,... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1840 - 334 lapas
...navigation owes its origin. A fine poet gives them the honor of being teachers to the mariner : — " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.7* The Chama-Gigas, or the Giant-Clam, is the largest of all the testaceous tribes. Linnaeus mentions... | |
 | George Brettingham Sowerby - 1842 - 350 lapas
...gracefully on the Mediterranean waters ; and Pope has versified the idea in the well known lines " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.'" 74 ASIPHONIBRANCHIATA. testaceous part of the Ocythbe, and that the broad membranes which in some representations... | |
 | Thomas Moule - 1842 - 282 lapas
...representative in miniature of a ship, that the primitive idea of navigation was acquired : man first Learnt of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. The primeval boat may have been an excavated tree, but vessels were soon afterwards formed of small planks:... | |
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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... 
