 | John Bell - 1777 - 644 páginas
...viewing Nature, Nature's hand-maid, Art Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow : Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. CLVI. Some log, perhaps, upon the waters swam, An useless drift, which, rudely cut within, And hollow'd,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 páginas
...viewing Nature, Nature's hand-maid. Art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow : Thus fishes first to shipping did impart Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. Some log, perhaps, upon the waters swam, An useless drift, which rudely cut within, And hollow'd, first... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 páginas
...viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow : Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. 156. Some log, perhaps, upon the waters swam, An useless drift, which, rudely cut within; And hollow'd,... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 páginas
...viewing Nature, Nature's hand-maid, Art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow : Thus fishes first to shipping did impart Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. Some log, perhaps, upon the waters swam, An useless drift, which rudely cut within, And hollow'd, first... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 páginas
...viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow : Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. 156. Some log, perhaps, upon the waters swam, An useless drift, which, rudely cut within, And hollow'd,... | |
 | 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 - 1815 - 558 páginas
...house ; he was to ' Learn of the little Nautilus to sail;' and it was never questioned that ' Fishes first to shipping did impart Their tail, the rudder, and their head, the prow. Yet the probable fact is, with regard to ships, that the floating body, on which man first entrusted... | |
 | 1816 - 782 páginas
...nature, nature's handmaid, art. Makes mighty things from fmall beginnings great ; Thus fifties firft to Shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. Drjden. — Since he had plac'd his heart upon wifdom, health, wealth, viclory, and honour ftiould... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 páginas
...viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, Art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow : The fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. Some log perhaps upon the waters swam, An useless drift, which rudely cut within, And hollowed first,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 páginas
...viewing Nature, Nature's hand-maid, Art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow : Thus fishes first to shipping did impart Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. Some log, perhaps, upon the waters swam, An useless drift, which rudely cut within, And hollow'd, first... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 páginas
...viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, Art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. Some log perhaps upon the waters swam, An useless drift, which, rudely cut within, And hollow'd first,... | |
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By viewing Nature, Nature's hand-maid. Art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow : Thus fishes first to shipping did impart Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. 
