Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Miscellanies - Página 253por William Fordyce Mavor - 1829Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1829 - 906 páginas
...field; Thy arts of building, from the bee receive; Learn of the mole, to plough, the worm, to weave; Learn of the little nautilus, to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." The philosophy of the poet, and the poetry of the philosopher, are assuredly contradicted... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 páginas
...field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; eel divides the yellow sand ;) Then part, where stretch'd along the wind driving gale. riere too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind... | |
| Edward Jesse - 1832 - 342 páginas
...' Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; ' Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; ' Learn of the little nautilus to sail, ' Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' ' Each crawling insect holds a rank ' Important in the plan of Him who framed ' This... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1832 - 430 páginas
...331-2. (50) The arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little NAUTILUS to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Essay on Man, Ep. 3. Its animal is a sxpia or clio, and inhabits the Mediterranean and... | |
| James Edward Gambier - 1834 - 268 páginas
...nature, His arts of building from the bee receive, Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. But instinct can never be improved. It is only adapted to the present exigencies of the... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1835 - 234 páginas
...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,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 páginas
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 370 páginas
...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... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 382 páginas
...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... | |
| 1835 - 74 páginas
...fields ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn from the mole to plough, the worm to weave"; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.'' CRUELTY TO INSECTS. [From Dr. Percival.] POPS. A certain youth indulged himself in... | |
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