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Poetical Works - Page 34
by Alexander Pope - 1808
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 pages
...it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass r What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain,...beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And bound sagacious on the tainted green ; L Ot hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which...
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Elegant Extracts, Volumes 1-2

Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 pages
...mounts to Man's imperial race, From the green mxriads in the peopled grass : Mr hat modes of sight , few here would scruple mate : But, pray, which of...with the Stoic chief our stage may ring, The Stoic tlie flood. To that which warbles through the vernal wood! 'Hie spider's touch, how exquisitely fine...
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Broome, Pope, Pitt, Thomson

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...extreme, The mole'g d'"> curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And bound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the...The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at eaetl thread, and lives along the line: In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper, Volume 5

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pages
...that intends; Therefore such forms as she doth cease to see. To memory's large volume she commends. 9 The spider's touch how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Pope's Essay on Man. This ledger-book lies in the brain behind, Like Janus' eye, which in his poll...
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The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including ..., Volume 12

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...mounts to man's imperial race, From, the green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the hea- Hong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that...
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pages
...some of the insect tribes, seem to enlarge the sphere of this sense, far beyond its ordinary limits. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, " Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." The two circumstances which I have chiefly enlarged upon, in the foregoing observations on the principle...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...mounts, to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain,...the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious to the tainted green : Of VER. 213. the headlong lioness] The manner of the lions hunting their prey...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - 1814 - 254 pages
...mole's dim curtain and the lynx's beam : Of fmell, the headlong lionefs between, And hound figacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that...To that which warbles through the vernal wood, The fpider's touch, how exquifitely fine ! Feels, at each thread, and lives, along the line : In the nice...
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Elegant poems. Pope's Essay on man, Blair's Grave, Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's ...

Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...grass: 210 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam I Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound...tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills theflood, 215 To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood : The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine...
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Essays on Practical Education, Volume 2

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1815 - 526 pages
...lines, for example, may not be immediately apparent to a child. " What modes of sight betwixt each vast extreme, " The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's..." And hound sagacious on the tainted green." " Of smell." A girl of ten years old (C ) was asked if she could tell what substantive the word " of" relates...
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