 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 34by Alexander Pope - 1808Full view - About this book
 | 1822 - 284 pages
...beam ! 8. See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick and bursting into birth. Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious...each thread, and lives along the line: In the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew! How Instinct varies in... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 pages
...between, And hound sagacious to the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 2L5i To that which warbles through the vernal wood,-! The...each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ? 220: How Instinct varies... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 510 pages
...immediately apparent to a child :— " What modes of sight betwixt each vast extreme, " The mole's dun curtain, and the lynx's beam; " Of smell the headlong..." And hound sagacious on the tainted green." " Of smell." A girl of ten yeats old (C ) was asked if she could tell what substantive the word " of relates... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal woqd ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at...each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ? 220 How Instinct varies... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1822 - 658 pages
...: Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles thro* the venial wood ! 194 The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at...each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true ! From poisonous herbs extracting healthy dew ; How instinct varies... | |
 | 1840 - 1122 pages
...In worlds enclosed, should on his senses burst, From cates ambrosial, and the nectai'd bowl, • " The spider's touch how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." POPE'S " Essay on Man." He would abhorrent turn ; and in dead night, When silence slept o'er all, be... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 pages
...toes give it warning of 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." M. Homberg tells us that he has seen a vigorous wasp carried off and destroyed by one of these species.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight holy, gp +/ bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew 1 How instinct varies... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 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...flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! 24 The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! . • Feels at each thread, and lives along the line:... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - 156 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 hves along... | |
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