| Francis Turner Palgrave - 1924 - عدد الصفحات: 774
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...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 nautilus to...driving gale; Here too, all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind." In passing I would call attention to Pope's reference... | |
| Alfred Fowler - 1924 - عدد الصفحات: 36
...mankind to the providence of God, as the true source of all wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. "It is easy to parody these lines, so as to give them an accommodation and suitableness to the present... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; 175 Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little Nautilus to...the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let Reason, late, instruct Mankind: i&> Here subterranean works and cities see; There... | |
| Oliver Elton - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...but rather of this kind : The 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 Imitations of Horace are well worth waiting for after so much experimentation. Pope is at last... | |
| 1882 - عدد الصفحات: 958
...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 nautilus to...the thin oar and catch the driving gale. ****** Here subterranean works and cities see ; There, towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small people's... | |
| 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...the former Aristotle, .-Elian, Oppian, Athenanis, Pliny — and among modern poets. Pope and Byron. Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. — POPB. Light as a flake of foam upon the wind, Keel upwards from the deep emerged a shell. Shaped... | |
| 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 1216
...field. Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Leam of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gala. Learn each small people's genius — policies — The ant's republic, and the realm of bees :... | |
| Boston Society of Natural History - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 442
...Modern poets have also sung its praises — among others, Pope and Byron; the former writes: — " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." 371 and, as these do not inhabit shells, the membranes, even if they could- be kept erect, could not... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1963 - عدد الصفحات: 884
...yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; 175 Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave; Learn...the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let Reason, late, instruct Mankind: 1 80 Here subterranean works and cities see ; There... | |
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