| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 Seiten
...the green myriads in the peopled grass r 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 bound sagacious on the tainted green ; L Ot hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which... | |
| Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 Seiten
...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 bound sagacious on the tainted green! Of hearing, from the life that tills the flood To that which... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 Seiten
...the green mxriads in the peopled grass : Mr hat modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's ray, which of you all would take her back? Tho" 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... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 Seiten
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 Seiten
...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 611s the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 Seiten
...green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 What modes of sight betwixt each wide 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 life that fills the flood, To that which... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 Seiten
...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 Seiten
...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 headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious to the tainted green : Of VER. 213. the headlong lioness] The manner of the lions hunting their prey... | |
| Daniel Staniford - 1814 - 254 Seiten
...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... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 Seiten
...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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