 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 oldal
...the poison of serpents, are almost the only remaining groundwork of this poetic phantasm. POPE, I. D Learn of the little nautilus to sail ; Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale : Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : 180 Here... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 370 oldal
...directing mankind to the providence of God, as the true source of all their wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. It is easy to parody those lines, so as to give them an accommodation and suitableness to the present... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1836 - 382 oldal
...this was the shell of the nautilus. " Ha !" cried Rosamond, " how glad I am to see the nautilus ! " ' Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' " But, ma'am, how does the nautilus sail ? Where is the thin oar? I do not see any thing here like... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 602 oldal
...directing mankind to the providence of God, as the true source of all their wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. It is easy to parody those lines, so as to give them an accommodation and suitableness to the present... | |
 | George Paston - 1909 - 420 oldal
...from the birds what food the forests yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole...sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Following the example of the ants and bees, man was supposed to have founded an ideal patriarchal state,... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1909 - 908 oldal
...fifteen feet long, " a veritable comet, and at night a phosphorescent meteor." Alexander Pope wrote: Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Of this beautiful little animal Dr. Holder writes: If we are very fortunate we shall sec the paper... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 oldal
...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. INSTRUCTION- sec Education. It is a good divine that follows his Own instructions; I can easier teach... | |
 | William Cowper - 1912 - 520 oldal
...directing mankind to the providence of God as the true source of all their wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the little 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... | |
 | Fred Wellington Ruckstuhl - 1916 - 618 oldal
...on coinage, was greatly honored by the poets, so that Pope, who knew his classics, felt bold to say: Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale. Though the sails are poetic in license, the oars are there, and the fairy argosy is a thing of beauty... | |
 | Felix Riesenberg - 1918 - 466 oldal
...gliding gaily before the gentle zephyrs of the line. They truly teach us a lesson, as Pope has it: "Learn of the Little Nautilus to sail Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." With the picking up of the NE trade wind a few degrees north of the line, we knew that the main haul... | |
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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. 
