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; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through... Poetical Works - Seite 34von Alexander Pope - 1808Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Brandon Turner - 1840 - 258 Seiten
...Gray. " What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain and the lynx's beam ! Of hearing from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood." — Pope. " 'Twas then his threshold first received a guest." — Parnell. " Flush'd by the spirit... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 Seiten
...every epithet is a decisive touch, as, From the green myriads in the peopled grass, What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain,...warbles through the vernal wood ; The spider's touch, bow exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. His picture of the dying pheasant... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 Seiten
...mole's dim curtain, and the lynx'e beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sncacious - . / thai which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each... | |
| John Aikin - 1843 - 830 Seiten
...it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight PV bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How Instinct varies... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 Seiten
...plain reason, Man is not a Fly. (Fr. Epistle I) 70 Die of a rose in aromatic pain? (Fr. Epistle I) 71 e, A mir (Fr. Epistle I) 72 Vast chain of Being, which from God began. Natures aethereal, human, angel, man,... | |
| Marcia Bonta - 1995 - 276 Seiten
...monster! This beautiful creature, with her exquisite web, is one of the most charming studies in nature. "The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." She is readily tamed, and her solicitude over her great pear-shaped cocoon of eggs is often quite pathetic.... | |
| Bonnie Kime Scott - 1996 - 376 Seiten
...quotation for Woolf 's, admiring the rare sensitivity of the spider as it lives off the lines of its web: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. (Essay on Man 11. 217-218) In noncanonical Native American writing, we encounter webs through "Thought-Woman,... | |
| Bonnie Kime Scott - 1996 - 376 Seiten
...quotation for Woolf's, admiring the rare sensitivity of the spider as it lives off the lines of its web: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. (Essay on Man 11. 217-218) In noncanonical Native American writing, we encounter webs through "Thought-Woman,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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