 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
 | 1829 - 494 σελίδες
...the leg, and serves it to adhere to the threads of the web. The web is wonderful in its formation. The Spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. POPE. He sits in the middle, and the least motion, caused by a fly or other insect rushing against... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 σελίδες
...mistake in this. Arhuihnot's History of John Bull. Оле clip the pencil, and one touch the lyre. Pope. The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Id. lie gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; To shew, by one satirick... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 σελίδες
...fate. Like thee confined to noisome garret. And rudely banished rooms of state. Lil'lelim. The spider'i touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Ptye. SPIDER, in entomology. See ARANEA and ENTOMOLOGY. SPIDER, SHF.PUF.RD. See PBALANOIUM. SPIDERWOKT,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 σελίδες
...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 at...true, From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew! How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd, half-reasteing elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 σελίδες
...flood, To that which warbles through the vemal wood ! The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feeb ߅р 0 poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! 220 How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compared,... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1841 - 612 σελίδες
...wide extreme— The mole'Rdim curlain, and the lynx's beam. Of smell, the headlong lioness between, The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. To the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poia'nous herbs extracts the healing dew. How instinct... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 σελίδες
...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! The...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 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...fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : nature, the love of mental exertion would be lost with its necessity, and he must relapse into the... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1835 - 370 σελίδες
...writer — a singular paradox — an example of power exhibited in the description of a spider's web ! " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." Here we have distinct ideas of the most delicate sensibility, the most acute perception, and the wonderful... | |
 | 1835 - 742 σελίδες
...perhaps we do not know even the subtle, invisible, atmospheric agents by which it is guided. Pope says. The spider's touch how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread and lives along the line. How far are we from comprehending the faculties with which these incredible, or all but incredible... | |
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