 | John Aikin - 1826 - Страниц: 840
...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...instruct mankind: Here subterranean works and cities sec ; There towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small people's genius, policies, The ant's... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - 1826 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 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 - Страниц: 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - Страниц: 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... | |
 | British Museum - 1851 - Страниц: 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... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1828 - Страниц: 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...towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small peop'e's geniup, policies, • The ant's republic, and the realm of bees; How those in common all their... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - Страниц: 222
...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...instruct mankind: Here subterranean works and cities sec; There towns jerial on the waving tree. Learn each small people's genius, policies, The ants' republic,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - Страниц: 264
...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...find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : 180 Here subterranean works and cities see ; There towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - Страниц: 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... | |
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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... 
