 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 pages
...beyond Mankind ; 190 No pow'rs 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. Sny for what use were finer optics giv'n, 195 T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the hear'n ? Or touch,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 138 pages
...beyond mankind; No pow'rs 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...beyond Mankind ; 190 No pow'rs 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...Man is not a fly. Say what the use were finer optics giv'n, 195 T'inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, Tolsmart... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...beyond mankind} No pow'rs 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...lapsed condition of man, the chief foundation of the Christian revelation, it is difficult to say. 11. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. Say, * Hume's Essays, quarto, pag, 106. t Ver. 171. Say, what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...lapsed condition of man, the chief foundation of the Christian revelation, it is difficult to say. 1 1. Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. * Hume's Essays, quarto, pag. 106. f Ver. 171. Say, what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 316 pages
...hliss of man (could pride that hlessing find,) Is not to act or think heyond mankind; liX) No pow'r* of hody or of soul to share, But what his nature and...man is 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... | |
 | 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...man is 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... | |
 | 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...man is 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... | |
 | 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 - 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...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 smart... | |
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. 
