 | Helen Vendler - 2006 - 166 páginas
...giv'n, Tinspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if trembling alive all o'er, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting thro' the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic pain? If nature thunder'd in his op'ning ears, And stunned him with the music of the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 148 páginas
...For this plain reason, 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, To smart and agonize at ev'ry pore ? Or quick effluvia, darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 páginas
...For this plain reason, 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, To smart and agonise at ev'ry pore? Or quick effluvia darting through the brain, Die of a rose in aromatic... | |
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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 optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n? Or touch, if tremblingly alive all o'er, To... 
