 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 - 1847 - 524 pages
...treatise 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 ; ! against animal food ; tom. ii. 995. Thomson, with his usual tenderness,... | |
 | Natural history - 1848 - 422 pages
...yield ; Learn from the beasts, the Physic of the field : The arts of building from the bee receive ; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave ; Learn of the little Nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale." — POPE. PREFACE. THE time for addressing... | |
 | Seth T. Hurd - English language - 1848 - 136 pages
...Now learn a parable of the fig-tree." — MATTH. " Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me."— IB. " Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield ; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field." — POPE. *' He teaches with his fingers." — PROV. "For he taught... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...thickets yield Leam from the beasts the physic of the field ; Thy arts of building from the bee receive ; ot wife ; To help me through this long disease, my life ; To second, Arbuthnot sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. Here too all forms of social union find, And... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pages
...amusing pieces, entitled the Butterfly's Ball, and the Peacock at Home. t The timber, next the ground. 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,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...yet for ever near. Pope, EMI 219. Who taught the nations of the field and wood INSTINCT— coniinued. 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,... | |
 | James Crowther - 1882 - 204 pages
...that Pope was right when he poetically described man as unconsciously imitating the works of God — " 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 from the mole to... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1883 - 782 pages
...and wood To shun their poison and to choose their food. 2448 Pope : Essay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 99 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,... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...170 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,... | |
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