 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1829 - 554 pages
...found. Of sea snails, the most curious is the nautilus, to which the poet alludes, in these words : Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the favouring gale. i IJ ..•"••' ' . It is furnished with eight feet, connected by a fine membrane.... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - English literature - 1829 - 540 pages
...found. Of sea snails, the most curious is the nautilus, to which the poet alludes, in these words : Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the favouring gale. It is furnished with eight feet, connected by a fine membrane. Of these, six feet are... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee QB W` kW 'u? 9 riere too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : 180 Here subterranean... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1925 - 366 pages
...thickets yield ; Learii 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...find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind." In passing I would call attention to Pope's reference to the bee and the arts of building. Had his... | |
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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... 
