| Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 Seiten
...sight betwixt each. wide extreme,: — The mole's dim curtain, — and the lynx's beam ;Of smell,-the head-long lioness between, And hound sagacious on...; — Of hearing, — from the life that fills the flood,To that which warbles through the vernal wood, The spider's touch how exquisitely fine !. Feels... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 402 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...flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood f The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 252 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...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 lives... | |
| Alexander Jamieson - 1821 - 448 Seiten
...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...the tainted green: Of hearing, from the life that nils the flood, To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitively... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 Seiten
...210 What modes of sight, betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beanx.; 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 - 1821 - 268 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 liound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 510 Seiten
...immediately apparent to a child :— " What modes of sight betwixt each vast extreme, " The mole's dun curtain, and the lynx's beam; " Of smell the headlong..." And hound sagacious on the tainted green." " Of smell." A girl of ten yeats old (C ) was asked if she could tell what substantive the word " of relates... | |
| 1840 - 1122 Seiten
...In worlds enclosed, should on his senses burst, From cates ambrosial, and the nectai'd bowl, • " The spider's touch how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." POPE'S " Essay on Man." He would abhorrent turn ; and in dead night, When silence slept o'er all, be... | |
| William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 Seiten
...toes give it warning of prey being at hand, when it rushes out and seldom fails to secure its victim. '•The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." M. Homberg tells us that he has seen a vigorous wasp carried off and destroyed by one of these species.... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 Seiten
...peculiar and discriminating * Sen. Ep. 107. Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious to the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal woqd ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels... | |
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