 | British Museum - 1851 - 288 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 pages
...part: Thus then to man the voice of nature spake— " Go, from the creatures thy instructions take; Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the ben its the physic bf the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough,... | |
 | 1829 - 906 pages
...idea respecting the origin of the arts, where he says, " Go, from the creatures thy instruction take; Learn from the birds, what food the thickets yield;...Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." The philosophy of the poet, and the poetry of the philosopher, are assuredly contradicted by observation... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 310 pages
...part; 170 Thus then to Man the voice of Nature spake: "Go, from the Creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;...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 sail, Spread... | |
 | Oliver Elton - 1928 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | 1879 - 552 pages
...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 - 1216 pages
...! from the creatures thy instruction take ; Learn from the birds what food the thickets yieldLearn from the beasts the physic of the field. Thy arts...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... | |
 | Boston Society of Natural History - 1856 - 442 pages
...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 - 884 pages
...part; 170 Thus then to Man the voice of Nature spake — 'Go, from the Creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield...field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; 175 Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave; Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the... | |
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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 plow, the worm to weave; Learn of the little... 
