 | 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...driving gale : Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : 180 Here subterranean works and cities see ; There... | |
 | 1835 - 74 páginas
...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 little nautilus to...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... | |
 | 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 to the present... | |
 | 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, or to sink to... | |
 | 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 to the present... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 páginas
...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 little Nautilus to...driving gale. Here too all forms of so'cial union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : 180 Here subterranean works and cities see; There... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 380 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 these lines, so as to give them an accommodation and suitableness to the present... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1836 - 382 páginas
...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 - 1836 - 602 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 to the present... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 512 páginas
...thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company; or again with the lines — Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale ; and — The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line?... | |
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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... 
