 Go, from the creatures thy instructions take: Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little...  An Essay on Man - Page 70by Alexander Pope - 1763 - 124 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...barathro et compesce querelas." There is an authoritative air in the brevity of this sentence, as also in Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; NOTES. in the concluding line of her speech ; and particularly in... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - 164 pages
...deserve our most particular attention. Pope says, — Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield : Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy art of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough,... | |
 | 1824 - 588 pages
...probably has its name,—and the use of sails might 'have been first borrowed from the Nuutilns. " Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield, Learn from the beasts the pbysic of the field; Tby arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough—the... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...: Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake : — ' Go, from the creatures thy instructions take ; Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough,... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...tomb; Who, foe to nature, hears the geivral groan, Murders their species, and betrays his own. ***** Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough,... | |
 | Maria Hack - Mothers and sons - 1828 - 106 pages
...: Thus then to man the voice of Nature spake : — ' Go, from the creatures thy instruction take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough,... | |
 | Meteorology - 1829 - 906 pages
...idea respecting the origin of the arts, where he says, " Go, from the creatures thy instruction take; Learn from the birds, what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts, the physic of the field; Thy arts of building, from the bee receive; Learn of the mole, to... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...part. 170 Thus then to man the voice of nature spake — Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : ry bowers, Leads the long order of ethereal powers. When like the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough,... | |
 | 1847 - 558 pages
..." Thus, then, to man the voice of Nature spake— ' Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field ; The arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plough,... | |
 | Gardening - 1831 - 774 pages
...us of the lines by Pope, in his Essay on Man : — " Go, from the creatures thy instructions take : Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field," &c. This act of the rabbit is precisely tantamount to the conclusion... | |
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