...to the providence of God, as the true source of all their wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. It is easy to parody those lines, so as to give them an accommodation and suitableness to the present...

...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...find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind : 180 Here subterranean works and cities see; There towns aerial on the waving tree. Learn each small...

...shell of the nautilus. " Ha !" cried Rosamond, " how glad I am to see the nautilus ! " ' Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.' " But, ma'am, how does the nautilus sail ? Where is the thin oar? I do not see any thing here like...

...to the providence of God as the true source of all their wisdom, says beautifully — Learn of the little 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...

...was greatly honored by the poets, so that Pope, who knew his classics, felt bold to say: Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale. Though the sails are poetic in license, the oars are there, and the fairy argosy is a thing of beauty...

...they follow, and so have fallen into slovenly ways that are perpetual. CHAPTER IX COURTS OP JUSTICE Here, too, all forms of social union find, And hence let reason, late, instruct mankind: Here subterranean works and cities tee: Their towns aerial on the woving tree. — Pope. great thinkers...

...before the gentle zephyrs of the line. They truly teach us a lesson, as Pope has it: "Learn of the Little Nautilus to sail Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." With the picking up of the NE trade wind a few degrees north of the line, we knew that the main haul...

...(1564-1616), As You Like It, Act ii. sc. 7. 1 Mr. Dick could never keep it out of his Memorial Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. 582. ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744), Essay on Man : Epistle III. (The) learned eye is still the loving...

...Man, Ep. Ill, 11. 178-79; Pope, instructing man to profit by the ways of animals, says : Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Pope's own note refers to and translates Oppian's Halieutica, and there is no indication that he had...

...Man, Ep. Ill, 11. 178-79; Pope, instructing man to profit by the ways of animals, says: Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Pope's own note refers to and translates Oppian's Haliéutica, and there is no indication that he had...