 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 to plough, the worm to weave ; learn of the little...  Kidd's Own Journal - Page 1641854Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Brown - 1835 - 234 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1836 - 382 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 pages
...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... | |
 | 1837 - 486 pages
...paths. " For thus to man the voice of nature spake, Go, from [he creatures thy instruction take, Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale."— Pors. In fine calm weather when the bosom of the sea is unruffled, the Argonauta... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1833 - 594 pages
...The arta 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 Saspia or Clio, and inhabits the Mediterranean and... | |
 | 1838 - 866 pages
...paths. " For ihns to man the voice of nature spake. Go, from the creatures thy instruction take, Learn of the little Nautilus to sail. Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale."— Pope. In fine calm weather when the bosom of the sea is unruffled, the Argonauta... | |
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