 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...  Der Mensch, ein philosophisches Gedicht - Seite 11von Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 Seiten
...the bird's sufferings to make us admire its feathers. The fourth line is perfect. 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 im the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 Seiten
...the bird's sufferings to make us admire its feathers. The fourth line is perfect. 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 mi the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...mole's dim curtain, and the lynx'e beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sncacious - . / To thai which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 Seiten
...it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight mal situation, wasie and wild ; A smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 Seiten
...mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : T Of smell, the headlong lioness between, A hound sagacious on the tainted green : 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 at each thread, and lives... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 Seiten
...it mounts to man's imperial race From the green myriads1 in the peopled grass : 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...have no image in the language more lively than that of the last verse. " To live 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...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, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious, on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 Seiten
...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, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious, on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 Seiten
...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, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious, on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
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