 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pages
...to choose, yet choosing still in haste, One moment gives the pleasure and distaste. — Warburton. Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their food? 100 Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand, Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand ? Who... | |
 | Charles Bridges - 1847 - 574 pages
...suitable and spiritual pleading with the God of Peace. 3 Kirby's Bridgewater Treatise, vol. ii. 186. 8 ' Who made the spider parallels design, Sure as Demoivre, without rule or line.' — Pope. 7 See chap. xxii. 29. 3 Interpreter expounded Ulie figure to Christiana — . that as the... | |
 | Thomas Burgeland Johnson - 1848 - 1102 pages
...most astonishing order and punctuality. Pope has the following beautiful lines on the subject: — " Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun...Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand ? Who bid the stork, Columbus-like explore Heav'ns not his own, and worlds unknown before ? Who calls the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...two in ours ; And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun...sand ? Who made the spider parallels design, Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line ? Who bid the stork, Columbus-like, explore Heavens not his own, and... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...wish or thought Fair virtue gives — unbribed, unbought. 14. Who taught the natives of the fields and wood, To shun their poison and to choose their...sand ? Who made the spider parallels design, Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line ? Who bid the stork, Columbus-like, explore Heavens not his own, and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pages
...two in ours; And reason raise o'er instinct as you can , In this 'tis God directs , in that 'tis Man. Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison , and to chuse their food ? Prescient , the tides or tempest to withstand , Build on .the wave , or arch heneath... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1851 - 442 pages
...worth a wish or thought Fair virtue gives — unbribed, unbought. Who taught the natives of the fields and wood To shun their poison and to choose their...sand ? Who made the spider parallels design, Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line ? Who bid the stork, Columbus-like, explore Heavens not his own, and... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1851 - 474 pages
...from him. 7. Well is the question put in the well-known language of a popular English poet : — " Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun...poison, and to choose their food ? Prescient, the tides and tempests to withstand, *> Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand ? Who made the spider parallels... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...two in ours ! And reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that, 'tis man. Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their food ? 100 Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand, Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand ?... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pages
...two in ours ! And Reason raise o'er Instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. thee, happier far. — Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation ; for the f Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand. Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand ? Who... | |
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Who taught the nations of the field and wood To shun their poison, and to choose their food ? Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand, Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand? 
