| British anthology - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...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. Here too all Conns of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : Here subterranean... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...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 oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reasons late, instruct mankind: 1S0 Here subterranean... | |
| William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - 1826 - عدد الصفحات: 806
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 864
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 290
...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... | |
| British Museum - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 288
...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... | |
| Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...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... | |
| Maria Hack - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 106
...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. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind ; Here subterranean... | |
| Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of tUe mole to plough ; the worm, to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." The philosophy of the poet, and the poetry of the philo" sopher, are assuredly contradicted by observation... | |
| 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 906
...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." The philosophy of the poet, and the poetry of the philosopher, are assuredly contradicted by observation... | |
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