 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 trang
...: for the public attention cannot be fixed at once on real remedies, and these frivolous nostrums. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason — man is not a fly. Why did not Lord Chatham, and Mr. Burke, and Mr. Fox, during that part of their lives which was spent... | |
 | 1827 - 500 trang
...just alluded to. There are those who will say, on reading these his later speculations, that "To him were finer optics given To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven." We have sometimes seen, that, in his disquisitions on the grand subjects in the higher walks of the... | |
 | 1827 - 496 trang
...present. Perhaps we may resume it hereafter, if some favorable opportunity should present. " To him were finer optics given To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven " We have sometimes seen, that, in his disquisitions on the grand subjects in the higher walks of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 trang
...blessing Is not to act or think beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of poul to share, But what Ins nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microsc-opic...man is not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mile, uot comprehend theheav'n Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 trang
...The bliss of man (could pride that blessing find) Is, not to act or think beyond mankind; No pow'rs of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and...microscopic eye? For this plain reason — man is not a fly. 22 Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch,... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 trang
...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...a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics given, T' inspect a mite, not comprehen'#the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, » To smart... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 650 trang
....',,.,'y mould nave the tendernra of a wound.' — Sermon 3. ' n >'• , hat not man a microscopic eye t 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 mart and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 654 trang
...whole body would have the tendernea of a wound.' — Sermon 3. ' I Hi t hoi not man a microscopic eye t For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics given, T' mspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To imart and... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 trang
...our sense. A similar rule applies to the preposition to, which ought never to be syncopated ; thus, Say what the use were finer optics given ? To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n. RULE V. Almost every verse admits of a pause in or near the middle of the line: this is called... | |
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Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. 
