...savagc^man. See him from nature rising slow to art ! To copy instinct then was reason's part : 170 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...

...reason's part: 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 ben its the physic bf the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough,...

...Essay on Man," has presented us with a similar idea respecting the origin of the arts, where he says, " Go, from the creatures thy instruction take ; Learn from the birds what food the thickets yi«ld ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive...

...little Nautilus.to sail, Spread thu thin oar and catch the driving gale. • Learn from the birds that food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Ami for those arts mere instinct might afford, Be crown'd as monarch*, or as gods adored." Can we...

...savage, man. See him from nature rising slow to art : To copy instinct then was reason's part. 170 wning light The gods had summon' d to the Olympian height : Jove first as instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic...

...reminds us of the lines by Pope, in his Essay on Man : — " Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets...; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field," &c. This act of the rabbit is precisely tantamount to the conclusion to which man has arrived after...

...all things well." Who, that has once read Pope's " Essay on Man," can forget those beautiful lines? " 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...

...a fiercer savage, man. See him from nature -rising slow to art! To copy instinct then was reason's part; Thus then to man the voice of nature -spake...thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic^ ofthe field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the wcrem to weave;...

...Uberibus manat distends : hinc nova proles, Artubus infirmis, teneras lasciva per herbas Ludit. .LUCRET. Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake : Go, from...yield ; Learn from the Beasts the physic of the field. POPE. The heart is hard hi nature, and unfit For human fellowship, as being void Of sympathy, and therefore...

...Ubcribus mnnat distcntis : hinc nova proles, Artubus infirmif), tencras lascivn per herbas Ludit. .LCCRBT. Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake : Go, from...Birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the lk-asti the physio of the field. PoPE. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit For human fellowship,...