 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...heyond mankind; liX) No pow'r* of hody or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can hear. Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain...not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics giv'n, 195 T' inspect a mite, not comprebend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremhlingly alive all o'er, To smart... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...heyond mankind ; No powers of hody or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can hear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...not a fly, Say what the use were finer optics giv'n, To' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics giv'n, To' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics giv'n, To' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 702 pages
...beyond mankind; No powers of body or ot sou! to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain...is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics given, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or tonch, 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 - English literature - 1832 - 644 pages
...concussion in the air, when alt the whale body would have the tenderness of a wound.' — Sermon 3. 1 Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer optics given, T" inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly (dive nil o'er, . To... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...smil to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man ,i microscopic eye? Forthis train, The sad historian of the pensive plain, Jfeat 188 DIDACTIC, given, T inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven? Or loach, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 536 pages
...beyond mankind; 190 No powers of body or of soul to share, Bui what his nature and his state can bear, Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...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 .ill o'er, , To... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 pages
...beyond mankind ; 190 No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state con bear, Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. S»y what the us«, were finer optics given, T" inspect a mite, not comprehend the Heaven ; Or (each,... | |
 | John Black - 1810 - 460 pages
...bear . . . 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 smart, and agonize at every pore ? Or quick efHuvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain ? If nature thundered in his opening... | |
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Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick... 
