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... The Works of Alexander Pope - Σελίδα 35των Alexander Pope - 1822Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1822 - 658 σελίδες
...: Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles thro* the venial wood ! 194 The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at...In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true ! From poisonous herbs extracting healthy dew ; How instinct varies in the groveling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning... | |
| 1840 - 1122 σελίδες
...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 σελίδες
...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 - 1824 - 424 σελίδες
...between, And hound sagacious, on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The...; 220 How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd, half-reas'ning elephant, with thine ! 'Twixt that, and Reason, what a nice barrier, For ever... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 σελίδες
...between, And hound sagacious, on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The...; 220 How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd, half-reas'ning elephant, with thine ! 'Twixt that, and Reason, what a nice barrier, For ever... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 80 σελίδες
...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood The...! 220 How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd, half-reas'ning elephant, with thine ! "Twixt that and reason, what a nice barrier ! For ever... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 σελίδες
...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew 1 How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 σελίδες
...green: Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! 24 The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! . • Feels...true, From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew! How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd, half-reas'ning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that... | |
| Peter Buchan - 1824 - 164 σελίδες
...the flood, To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood ; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine j Feels at each thread, and lives along the line ; In...subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing due. Hovr instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd half-reas'ning elephant, with thine ! 'Twixt... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1824 - 84 σελίδες
...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,... | |
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