 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 páginas
...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...thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all Conns of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : Here subterranean works... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 páginas
...savage, man. See him from nature rising slow to art ! To copy instinct then was reason's part : 170 Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin...the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reasons late, instruct mankind: 1S0 Here subterranean works and cities see : There... | |
 | 1825 - 630 páginas
...imagine that the idea of sailing may have been first taken froni observing the Nautilus. Pope says, Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Voyagers tell us that great numbers of these animals are sometimes to be seen in calm weather, diverting... | |
 | 1825 - 366 páginas
...sailing from observing the Nautilus. Theirs was the paper Nautilus, such as is seen in the picture. Learn of the little Nautilus to sail. Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Parting Address to the Children of a Sunday School *. My dear Children, ACCEPT this parting address... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - 1826 - 806 páginas
...earth, And the wicked exist no more for ever. Bless thou the Lord, O my soul, Praise Jehovah ! 8 " Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." POPE. This fish swims on the surface of the sea, on the back of its shell, which exactly resembles... | |
 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 páginas
...early manner-. \ the example she affords has been held out by they as still deserving imitation : — " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail. Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale."1 Sea Tortoises, without any teacher but nature, instinctively taught to lay their eggs on the... | |
 | 1827 - 290 páginas
...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...sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. * * » * * For forms of government let fools contest ; ' Whate'er is best administer'd, is best : For... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 544 páginas
...Cleopatra. We have seen thousands of them bounding over the billows, reminding us of Pope's couplet : " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the rising gale.'' After our return to the ship, Captain Davis and another party made an excursion in the... | |
 | British Museum - 1851 - 288 páginas
...arms for sails, and its slender arms as oars, from whence Pope gave his wellknown lines, " Learn from the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale," proves to be a fiction. The dilated arms are used by the animal to clasp the shell and keep it on the... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1828 - 106 páginas
...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...the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind ; Here subterranean works and cities see ; There... | |
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Thus then to man the voice of nature spake, ' 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... 
