| Natural history - 1844 - 444 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." J. PEMBERTON BARTLETT. Kingston Rectory, May, 1844. Notes on the cause of the nudily of the throat... | |
| English periodicals - 1844 - 440 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." J. PEMBERTON BARTLETT. Kingston Rectory, May, 1844. Notes on the cause of the nudity of the throat... | |
| 1867 - 826 pages
...field ; Tbe 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." HUMILITY. Tin- bird that soars on highest wing, Builds on the ground her lowly uest ; And she that... | |
| Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 510 pages
...little creature then erects a small membrane for a sail, and extends its six arms as oars. Our poet Pope says, " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the rising gale." 419 2 E 2 Of the shells of one species of nautilus the people of the East make very handsome... | |
| George Brettingham Sowerby - Mollusks - 1846 - 408 pages
...sailing gracefully on the Mediterranean waters; and Pope has versified the idea in the well known lines " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving pale. ' ' testaceous part of the Ocythb'e, and that the broad membranes which in some representations... | |
| John William Carleton - 1847 - 556 pages
...field ; 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 worker from the work distinct was known, And simple reason never sought but one.' " The gradual... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...practised Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; 1 75 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... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1847 - 272 pages
...that this was t shell of the nautilus. "Ha!" cried Rosamond, "how glad] am to see the nautilus ! ' Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving But, ma'am, how does the nautilus sai Where is the thin oar ! I do not see any here like oars, or sails."... | |
| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 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 forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : Here subterranean... | |
| 1849 - 396 pages
...Argonauts : — For thus to man the voice of Nature spake : " Go, from the creatures thy instruction take ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail ; Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale." To this hero (poetical fiction, which is sometimes strangely mingled with truth) the art of navigation... | |
| |