| 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... | |
| Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1815 - 524 Seiten
...not be immediately apparent to a child. " What modes of sight betwixt each vast extreme, " The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; •* Of smell the..." And hound sagacious on the tainted green." " Of smell" A girl of ten years old (C ) was asked if she could tell what substantive the word " of" relates... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 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," * Note (P p.) The two circumstances which I have chiefly enlarged upon, in the foregoing observations... | |
| 1817 - 314 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...vernal wood.; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine 1 Feels at each thread, and lives along the line: In the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poisonous... | |
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