...Pope's Essay on Man, Ep. Ill, 11. 178-79; Pope, instructing man to profit by the ways of animals, says: Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Pope's own note refers to and translates Oppian's Haliéutica, and there is no indication that he had...

...is found in the Mediterranean, that -we are indebted for the origin of ^ip-building. Pope says,— ''Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." Jl swims on the surface of the sea on the back of u« shell, which exactly resembles the hull of a...

...Pope's Essay on Man, Ep. Ill, 11. 178-79; Pope, instructing man to profit by the ways of animals, says : Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Pope's own note refers to and translates Oppian's Halieutica, and there is no indication that he had...

...the boat ahead. PLUTARCH — Whether 'twas rightfully said, Live concealed. (See also BURTON) 7 Leam of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. POPE— Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 177. g The oars were silver: Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke....

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...the idea of venturing upon the sea in ships. Pope's well-known lines seem to enhance that idea: — ' Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' ' Spread the thin oar ' refers to the supposed habit of the argonaut of spreading out the arms as oars,...

...shell which it continually builds up as it grows. 1. poets feign : eg Pope, Essay on Man, iii. 178, ' Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' The Nautilus was formerly supposed to use its webbed dorsal arms as sails. 5. the siren : see note...

...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 little nautilus to...driving gale; Here too, all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind." In passing I would call attention to Pope's reference...

...mankind to the providence of God, as the true source of all wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the 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...

...the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; 175 Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little Nautilus to...the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let Reason, late, instruct Mankind: i&> Here subterranean works and cities see; There...