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THE WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER HIS LIFE, LETTERS, AND POEMS - Page 171
1860
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, Volume 4

1824 - 588 pages
...field; Tby 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." &c. ' •• POPE. EDJDISTONE LIGHT-HOUSE. To the Editor of the Cottager s Monthly Visitor. SIR, IT...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which ...

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 pages
..." 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 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...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...the 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 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 subterranean...
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Harry Beaufroy, Or, The Pupil of Nature

Maria Hack - 1824 - 214 pages
...field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave $ l.earn 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 : Here subterranean...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; ti S,/ Here too all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : Here subterranean...
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The National School Magazine, Volumes 2-3

1825 - 366 pages
...sailing from observing the Nautilus. Theirs was the paper Nautilus, such as is seen in the picture. Learn of the little Nautilus to sail. Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Parting Address to the Children of a Sunday School *. My dear Children, ACCEPT this parting address...
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The Poetical Works of Alex. Pope: With a Sketch of the Author's Life

Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...savage, man. See him from nature rising slow to art ! To copy instinct then was reason's part : 170 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 reasons late, instruct mankind: 1S0 Here subterranean...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 3-4

British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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. Here too all Conns of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : Here subterranean...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 8

William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - 1826 - 806 pages
...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...
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Popular Philosophy; Or, The Book of Nature Laid Open Upon Christian ...

George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...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...
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