 Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting...  Observations on Pope - Page 161by Gilbert Wakefield - 1796 - 348 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 272 pages
...ftrength is abated. P. No ppw'rs of body or of foul to fhare, But what his nature and his Hate can bear. Why has not Man a microfcopic eye ? For this plain...heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To fmart and agonize at ev'ry pore ? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die o£ a rofe in aromatic... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 374 pages
...body or of foul to fhare, But what his nature and his ftate can bear. Why has not Man a rnicrofcopic eye? For this plain reafon, Man is not a Fly, Say what the ufe, were finer optics giv'n, 195 T'infpecT: a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To ftnart... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1751 - 274 pages
...foul to fhare, But what his nature and his ftate can bear. "Why has not Man a microfcopic eye ? if or this plain reafon, Man is not a Fly. Say what the ufe, were finer optics giv'n, 195 T' infpeft a mite, not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To fmart... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1754 - 238 pages
...honour. Pfalm viii. 9. No pow'rs of body or of foul to fhare, But what his nature and his ftate can bear. Why has not Man a microfcopic eye ? For this plain...a Fly. Say what the ufe, were finer optics giv'n, 195 T' infpeft a mite, not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To fmart... | |
 | sir Thomas Browne - 1754 - 420 pages
...Shall he alone, whom rational we call, Be pleas'd with nothing, if not blek'd with . all? after-wards, Why has not man a microfcopic eye ? For this plain reafon, man is not a fly. EjJT. on ma", Ef- !• v> 165, . Page 50. 1. 2. Yet is God the true and infallible caufe of all, &c.J... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1757 - 234 pages
...ftrength is abated. 12 ESSAY ON MAN. EP. ISay what the ufe, were finer optics giv'n, 1 95 T'inlpeft a mite, not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To fmart and agoni2e at ev'ry pore ? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rofe in aromatic... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1760 - 402 pages
...ftrength, their fwiftnefs is lefTened ; or as they are formed for fwiftnefs, their ftrength is abated. P. Why has not Man a microfcopic eye ? For this plain...a Fly. Say what the ufe, were finer optics giv'n, 195 T" infpecT: a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To fmart... | |
 | John Newbery - English poetry - 1762 - 292 pages
...beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of foul to fhare, But what his nature and his ftate can bear. Why has not man a microfcopic eye ? For this plain...a fly. Say what the ufe, were finer optics giv'n, T'infpeft a mite, not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To fmart and... | |
 | Art - 1762 - 290 pages
...beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of foul to (hare, But what his nature and his ftate can bear. Why has not man a microfcopic eye ? For this plain...a fly. Say what the ufe, were finer optics giv'n, T'infpeft a mite, not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To fmart and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1762 - 370 pages
...beyond mankind ; 190 No pow'rs of body or of foul to share, But what his nature and his ftate can bear. "Why has not Man a microfcopic eye? For this plain reafon , man is not a Fly. Say what the ufe, w^re finer optics giv'n, \ Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To fmart and agonize at ev'ry pore... | |
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