 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1829 - 554 pagina’s
...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.... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pagina’s
...obligations ; and. having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molrhil:. South's St'rnwns. Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave. l'ope. Superficial writers, like the mole, often fancy themselves deep, when... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pagina’s
...Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; } 8ےd /& ? + &q{dEu) G QB W` kW 'u? 9 riere too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : 180 Here subterranean... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pagina’s
...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 - 1923 - 1010 pagina’s
...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 - 1924 - 774 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...Learn from the birds, what food the thickets yield ; Learii from the beasts, the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building, from the bee receive; Learn...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." In passing... | |
 | Alfred Fowler - 1924 - 36 pagina’s
...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 - 306 pagina’s
...yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; irs Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; Learn...sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, ^ And hence let Reason- latfi, instruct Mankind: r /i&> "Here... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 pagina’s
...generalities. They were not at all like those of Hamlet or of Milton's Satan, but rather of this kind : The arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the...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... | |
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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. 
