 | George Miller - 1826 - 864 pages
...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... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - Christianity - 1826 - 806 pages
...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 544 pages
...have seen thousands of them bounding over the billows, reminding us of Pope's couplet : " Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the rising gale.'' After our return to the ship, Captain Davis and another party made an excursion in the jolly-boat,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...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. * * » * * For forms of government let fools contest ; ' Whate'er is best administer'd,... | |
 | Maria Hack - Mothers and sons - 1828 - 106 pages
...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... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 416 pages
...arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of tUe mole to plough ; the worm, to weave ; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." The philosophy of the poet, and the poetry of the philo" sopher, are assuredly contradicted... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - English literature - 1829 - 540 pages
...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. It is furnished with eight feet, connected by a fine membrane. Of these, six feet are... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 438 pages
...Fr. nautile ; lat * tilus. A shell fish furnished with somtik; analogous to oars and a sail. Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gileiff' The little ntmtitui, with purple pride Expands his sails, and dances o'er the v\ -v... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1829 - 554 pages
...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.... | |
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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. 
