 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...beyond mankind ; 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. Say for what use were finer optics given T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven? Or touch, if tremblingly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 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...the use, were finer optics given, To inspect a mite, uot comprehend the heaven ! Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonise at every... | |
 | Martyn Paine - Medicine - 1840 - 752 pages
...and Surgery. " Why has not man a microscopic eyo ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say whal the use, were finer optics given To inspect a mite, — not comprehend the heaven ?" — Pops. THE microscope having been extensively employed in the interpretation of vital phenomena,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...microscopic eyet For this plain reason, roan is not a fly. Soy what the use, were finer optics given, T contend till all the prize is lost! The Lock, oblain'd with guilt, and kept with pain, In every p agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English language - 1843 - 50 pages
...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 microscopic eye ? For this plain...touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart, and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...beyond mankind; No powers of body or of soul to share. But what his nature and his state can bear. her marriage-faith to circumvent me. Therefore, without...shifts, let be assign'd Some narrow place inclos'd, wh T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the Heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er. To smart and... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. opties given, T inspect a mite, not comprehend the Heaven ( Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er,... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English periodicals - 1843 - 596 pages
...her ladyship's fireside one winter's evening, " it is contact with an overshrewd sagacity. Why hath not man a microscopic eye ? — For this plain reason, — man is not a fly ! The greatness of our intellectual nature enables man to take a wider and more generalizing view of... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1843 - 620 pages
...her ladyship's fireside one winter's . evening, "it is contact with an overshrewd sagacity. Why hath not man a microscopic eye? — For this plain reason, — man is not a fly ! The greatness of our intellectual nature enables man to take a wider and more generalizing view of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pages
...his nature and his state can bear. I Why has not man a microscopic eye? I 'For this plain rei-sin, man is not a fly./ Say what the use, were finer optics given, 195 To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart,... | |
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. 
