 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 σελίδες
...arts of building from the bee receive ; 1 75 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. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let Reason, late, instruct Mankind... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 σελίδες
...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. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind... | |
 | 1849 - 396 σελίδες
...For thus 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." To this hero (poetical fiction, which is sometimes strangely mingled with truth) the... | |
 | Art - 1850 - 72 σελίδες
...sea, gives a very lively idea of a Vessel in miniature sailing before the wind. So Pope ' Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, ' Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' Essay on Man. iii. 177_8. As to the reading, whether correct or not — the notion is... | |
 | Child - 1850 - 72 σελίδες
...of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough ; the worm to yield; weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." POPB. BRITAIN. ' I LOVE thee, 0 my native Isle ; Dear as my mother's earliest smile,... | |
 | A. Barrington - 1850 - 448 σελίδες
...oars, on each side, to di,rect, as well as hasten its progress. No sooner does the breeze * " Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gala" freshen, and the sea become ruffled, than the animal hastens to take down its sail, and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 σελίδες
...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 suitableto... | |
 | M. Montagu - 1851 - 624 σελίδες
...for, when wafted along the smooth surface of the water by the wind filling its arm-sails * ' Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, ' Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' Pope. Essay on Man. iii. 177— 8. and the concavity of its shell, it presents exactly... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 σελίδες
...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. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind... | |
 | Class-book - 1852 - 152 σελίδες
...receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; REASON INSTRUCTED BY INSTINCT. 67 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... | |
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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. 
