| 1852 - Liczba stron: 394
...that blessing find,) 7s not to act or think beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of sou^tn share, Bat what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not...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,... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1853 - Liczba stron: 766
...OF NATURE. THE bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share But what his...a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics given, To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1853 - Liczba stron: 336
...all ? The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think 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 microsopie eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics given,... | |
| John Locke - 1854 - Liczba stron: 560
...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...a fly. Say, what the use, were finer optics given, To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and... | |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - Liczba stron: 444
...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...fly. — Say, what the use were finer optics given ? To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven, — Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er ? To smart... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1855 - Liczba stron: 612
...Spleen The bliss of man (eould pride that blessing find) It not to aet or think beyond mankind No pow'rs of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state ean bear Why has not man a mieroseopie eye t For this plain reason — man is not a fly. Say for what... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - Liczba stron: 518
...with all ? The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act, or think, beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his...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... | |
| Alexander Pope, George Gilfillan - 1856 - Liczba stron: 356
...all ? The bliss of Man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; i»o No powers of body or of soul to share, But what 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... | |
| George Allarton - 1856 - Liczba stron: 168
...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...not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics given ? To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven." Homoeopathy is inconsistent with reason and common... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1856 - Liczba stron: 134
...with all 7 The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of 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 the... | |
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