| Eric Gerald Stanley - 1996 - 564 Seiten
...inter animalia anulosi corporis viget in aranea sensus tactus. Cf. Pope, Essay on Man, II, 217-18: 'The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! / Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.' 33 Speculum naturale, XX, 117. 34 De animalibus, VIII, tr. iv, ca. 1. Aristotle says exactly the same... | |
| Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 Seiten
...was capable of the most painfully particular poetry. Here are Pope and Thomson describing a spider: The spider's touch how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line: (An Essay on Man, 1, 217-218) where gloomily retired, The villain spider lives, cunning and fierce,... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 Seiten
...Man Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a By. 8895 An Essay on Man st whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to ro 8896 An Essay on Man All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body. Nature is, and God the... | |
| Michael Lipton, Shahin Yaqub, Eliane Darbellay - 1998 - 234 Seiten
...lender retain control and incentive for repayment at each stage, however decentralized, of the web - "The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line" [Pope 1733: 217] - but the smallest borrower can, by his or her repayment or default, trigger a series... | |
| Gilbert Imlay - 1998 - 372 Seiten
...adapted from An Essay on Man by the English poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744), and read more correctly: "The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! / Feels at each thread, and lives along the line:" (Epistle I, lines 217-18). 8. Arcadian regions: See note 4 to Letter XII. LETTER XXXVI 1. hollos: Shouts... | |
| Mavis Batey - 1999 - 544 Seiten
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| Kevin Hart - 1999 - 254 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...lioness between And hound sagacious on the tainted green . . .30 And so the poem goes on, for page after elegant page. The doctrine of metaphysical subordination... | |
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