| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 Seiten
...original, though it is evident he took pains about it. See his four lines on the spider : Contemplez Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound...: 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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 Seiten
...215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Fee* at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, F(om pois'noas herbs extracts the healing dew I 220 How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd,... | |
| Peter Buchan - 1824 - 156 Seiten
...on the tainted green : Of hearing, from 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 the line ; In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the... | |
| British anthology - 1825 - 460 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...along the line. In the nice bee, what sense, so subtly troe, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the grovelling swine,... | |
| Henry Phillips - 1825 - 414 Seiten
...together, Allliction alters." ' Winter's Tale. ADROITNESS. SPIDF.R OPIIRYS.—Ofthrys aranifcra. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." Pope. This fiower is made emblematical of adroitness or skill'ulness, in allusion to the insect it... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1825 - 426 Seiten
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| William Hazlitt - 1825 - 600 Seiten
...myriads in the peopled grass : . What modes of sight betwixt eaeh wide extreme, The mole's dim eurtain, eban knightes two. Som sayden thus, som sayde it shal be so ; Som helde sagaeious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that whieh warbles... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 322 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 fills the floed, To that which... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 Seiten
...green myriads in the peopled grass : 21O What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell, the headlong...line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, 220 From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compared,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1828 - 222 Seiten
...man's imperial race, rom the green myriads in the peopled grass ; a moes o eg ewx eac w The mole's dim curtain and the lynx's beam ? Of smell, the headlong...the flood ^To that which warbles through the vernal WOC J"he spider's touch, how ex.Q/ii8\le\^ few 1 . hat modes of eight betwixt each wide extre Feels... | |
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