 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...  The British poets, including translations - Page 56by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Edward Jesse - Animal behavior - 1832 - 342 pages
...the creatures thy instruction take : ' Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; ' Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; ' Thy arts...Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' ' Each crawling insect holds a rank ' Important in the plan of Him who framed ' This scale of beings.'... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1832 - 430 pages
...breadth; while the rotundata of the Mediterranean is sometimes 2 feet long. T. Linn. 331-2. (50) The arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the...sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Essay on Man, Ep. 3. Its animal is a sxpia or clio, and inhabits the Mediterranean and Indian Seas.... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1832 - 440 pages
...Mediterranean is sometimes 2 feet long.— T. Linn. p. 301, 302. * The arts of building from the hee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough ; the worm to...; Learn of the little NAUTILUS to sail. Spread the rliin oar, and catch the driving gale. Essay on Man, Ep. 3. Its animal is a saepis or clio, and inhabits... | |
 | Herbert Charles O'Neill - English language - 1919 - 480 pages
...SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616), As You Like It, Act ii. sc. 7. 1 Mr. Dick could never keep it out of his Memorial Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. 582. ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744), Essay on Man : Epistle III. (The) learned eye is still the loving... | |
 | Classical philology - 1921 - 438 pages
...Pope's Essay on Man, Ep. Ill, 11. 178-79; Pope, instructing man to profit by the ways of animals, says : Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Pope's own note refers to and translates Oppian's Halieutica, and there is no indication that he had... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 428 pages
...is found in the Mediterranean, that -we are indebted for the origin of ^ip-building. Pope says,— ''Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." Jl swims on the surface of the sea on the back of u« shell, which exactly resembles the hull of a... | |
 | Classical philology - 1921 - 440 pages
...Pope's Essay on Man, Ep. Ill, 11. 178-79; Pope, instructing man to profit by the ways of animals, says: Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Pope's own note refers to and translates Oppian's Haliéutica, and there is no indication that he had... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...the boat ahead. PLUTARCH — Whether 'twas rightfully said, Live concealed. (See also BURTON) 7 Leam of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. POPE— Essay on Man. Ep. III. L. 177. g The oars were silver: Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke.... | |
 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - Common fallacies - 1923 - 1010 pages
...the idea of venturing upon the sea in ships. Pope's well-known lines seem to enhance that idea: — ' Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' ' Spread the thin oar ' refers to the supposed habit of the argonaut of spreading out the arms as oars,... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1924 - 774 pages
...shell which it continually builds up as it grows. 1. poets feign : eg Pope, Essay on Man, iii. 178, ' Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' The Nautilus was formerly supposed to use its webbed dorsal arms as sails. 5. the siren : see note... | |
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