 | Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - 356 Seiten
...or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye 1 For this plain reason, Man is not 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 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 reason — man is not a flv. Say, what the use, were finer opties given, To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1858 - 516 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 - 1859 - 330 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...not 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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1859 - 226 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 reason, man is not a riy Say what the use, were finer optics given, T' Inspect a mite, not comprehend the Heaven ? Or touch,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1860 - 542 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 agonise at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through... | |
 | Joseph Ellis Duncan - 1972 - 349 Seiten
...faculties, particularly the kind of sensory perception described by Glanvill, as inappropriate for man: Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. (I, 193-94) Before the Fall, Milton's Adam and Eve could have ascended on the chain of being, but Pope... | |
 | Verlyn Klinkenborg, Herbert Cahoon, Pierpont Morgan Library - 1981 - 274 Seiten
...beyond Mankind;/ No self-confounding Faculties to share-/ No Senses stronger than his brain can bear./ Why has not Man a microscopic Eye?/ For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly:/ What the advantage, if his finer eyes/ Study a Mite, not comprehend the Skies?/ His Touch, if tremblingly... | |
 | Stephen Edelston Toulmin, Stephen Toulmin, June Goodfield - 1982 - 422 Seiten
...the world, Providence would surely have equipped him with sense-organs of higher discrimination — Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain...is not a Fly. Say, what the use, were finer Optics giv'n To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? The hardest thing of all was to keep the products... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 Seiten
...same Laws which first herself ordained. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 1971, Autumn, p 105 101 Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. t» Essay on Man I, 193 102 Atoms or systems into ruins hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a World.... | |
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. 
