 | 1850 - 268 pagini
...unworthy of employments for a being who had the face of heaven whereon to exercise his vision : — ' Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain...given T inspect a mite — not comprehend the heaven.' It is very true that for man to be endowed with microscopic vision would be a curse instead of a blessing;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 94 pagini
...beyond mankind; 190 No pow'rs of body or soul 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 giv'n, ig5 T'inspect a mite , not comprehend the Heav'n ? Or touch , if tremblingly alive all o'er... | |
 | 318 pagini
...Prom her the canvas borrows light and shade, And verse more lasting hues that never fade. ••ML Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. PROXIMITY. Remembrance and affection how allied What thin partition sense from thought divide. WITS... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pagini
...to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. \Vhy has not man a microscopic eye ? For thia plain reason, man is not 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... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pagini
...soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. 7 Why has not man a microscopic eye ? 6 For this plain reason: man is not a fly. Say : what the use, were finer optics given, To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven? 9 Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pagini
...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...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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1852 - 344 pagini
...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...reason, man is not a fly. Say what the use, were finer opties given, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the Heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er,... | |
 | 1852 - 394 pagini
...beyond mankind ; No powers of body or of sou^tn share, Bat what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a 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,... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pagini
...or of soul to share, But what his nature and his state can bear. Why has not man a microscopic eyet * opties given, T" inspect a mite, not comprehend the Heaven I Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 pagini
...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...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... | |
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Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. 
