| 1852 - 394 Seiten
...beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of sou^tn share, Bat what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye '( For this plain reason, man is not a flySay, what the use, were finer optics given, To inspect a mite, not comprehend a Heaven ? A touch,... | |
| 1852 - 874 Seiten
...or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eyet * opties given, T" inspect a mite, not comprehend the Heaven I Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 Seiten
...beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 Seiten
...body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microsopie eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics given, 19.) To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart... | |
| John Locke - 1854 - 560 Seiten
...The whispering zephyr, and the purling rill ! " — ED. t Here we have the very words of Pope: — "Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain...inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonise at every pore? Or quick effluvia darting through the... | |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 Seiten
...Now looking downward, just as grieved, appears To want the strength of bulls, the fur of bears. . . . Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...mite, not comprehend the heaven, — Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er ? To smart and agonise at every pore. — Or quick effluvia darting through... | |
| George Allarton - 1856 - 168 Seiten
...medicine, how is it that Nature has not instinctively led us to practise it at an earlier period? ' ' Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...given ? To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven." Homoeopathy is inconsistent with reason and common sense. It is doubtless very fascinating to weak-minded... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - 134 Seiten
...soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bearWhy has not man a microscopic eye ? soar, For this plain reason, Man is not a fly. Say what...given, To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven 1 Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore 1 Or quick effluvia darting... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 Seiten
...beyond mankind ; 190 No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye \ For this plain...a fly. Say, what the use, were finer optics given, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 Seiten
...beyond mankind ; No pow'rs of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain...not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics given? ^ T' inspect a mite, not comprehend^the heav n ; Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart... | |
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