 | Alexander Pope - 1843 - 50 頁
...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...inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven * Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart, and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 頁
...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 - 1843 - 830 頁
...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 - 1843 - 596 頁
...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 頁
...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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 頁
...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...inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at every pore ? Or quick effluvia darting through... | |
 | William Peters (of Brighton.) - 1846 - 122 頁
...may safely be said that nothing appears to the eye of the size that it is. When Pope asks " Why haa not man a microscopic eye ? " For this plain reason, man is not a fly," k his answer. In the matter of the fly we do not know how the Poet came at his information. In the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 頁
...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...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, To... | |
 | New Hampshire State Board of Education - 1856 - 454 頁
...our fair teachers, who constitute the great majority, the Committee would commend two lines of Pope : "Why has not man a microscopic eye ? For this plain reason, man is not a fly." — CB Dow, JC Worth, J. Richards, Committee. HAVERHILL. — It is at home, under the first reproving... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 頁
...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, To inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven ? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er,... | |
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly. 
