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
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 820 pages
...different habits and dresses, according to the mode that prevailed. Addison on Medals. What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain,...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green. Pope. If faith itself has diffrent dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn ?... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 pages
...mistake in this. Arhuihnot's History of John Bull. Оле clip the pencil, and one touch the lyre. Pope. The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Id. lie gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; To shew, by one satirick... | |
| 1829 - 494 pages
...the leg, 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 line. POPE. He sits in the middle, and the least motion, caused by a fly or other insect rushing against... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 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... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 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... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 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: In... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...mounts toman's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled gran : 210 Whtí modes of sight ntroduction of the polite arts of Greece had given...ancient poets restrained ; that ntire and comedy were b vemal wood ! The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feeb at each thread, and lives along the line... | |
| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1841 - 612 pages
...wide extreme— The mole'Rdim curlain, and the lynx's beam. Of smell, the headlong lioness between, The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. To the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poia'nous herbs extracts the healing dew. How instinct... | |
| Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 pages
...From the green myriads in the peopled grass: What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme. The mole'a dim curtain and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong...each thread, and lives along the line: In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew? How instinct varies... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 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,...; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels... | |
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