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" What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through... "
Poetical Works - Page 34
by Alexander Pope - 1808
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Philosophical Essays

Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 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," * Note (P p.) The two circumstances which I have chiefly enlarged upon, in the foregoing observations...
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Elegant Extracts: A Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and ...

1817 - 314 pages
...it mounts to man's imperial race From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain...vernal wood.; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine 1 Feels at each thread, and lives along the line: In the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poisonous...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pages
...it mounts, to Man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain,...To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider s touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice...
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The Contemplative Philosopher: Or, Short Essays on the Various ..., Volume 2

Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass; What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain,...To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The tpider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line ' In the nice...
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The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and ...

Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 pages
...it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight, betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain,...the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1817 - 494 pages
...his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. SPENSER. t The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. POPE. maimed or bruised, and a new limb is gradually formed. Like some of the crabs, lobsters are said1...
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An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History ..., Volume 1

William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 pages
...prey being at hand, when it rushes out and seldom fails to secure its .victim. \ .. • • • * " The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." JVT. Homberg tells us that he has seen a vigorous wasp Carried off and destroyed by one of these species,...
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A Compendium of Zoology,: Being a Description of More Than Three Hundred ...

Thomas Boreman - 1818 - 420 pages
...the Icq, and serves it to adhere to the threads of the web. The web is wonderful in its formation. " The Spider's touch, how exquisitely fine '. Feels at each thread, and lives along the iim-. POPE'S ESSAV ON MA-/. He sits in the middle, and the least motion, caused by a fly or other insect...
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Essay on English poetry

Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 344 pages
...every epithet is a decisive touch, as, From the green myriads in the peopled grass, What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain,...fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. His picture of the dying pheasant is in every one's memory, and possibly the lines of his winter piece...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author

Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the Hood, To that which warhles through the vernal woodl The spider's touch how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line; ln the nice hee, what ssnre so suhtly true, From poisonous herhs extraets the healing dew 1 220 I low...
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