 Man's imperial race 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 ; of hearing,...  A History of English Poetry - Страница 283по William John Courthope - 1905Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 252 страници
...on the tainted green : Of hearing , from the life that fills the flood , To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood ? The spider's touch , how exquisitely...! Feels at each thread , and lives along the line : • Jn the nice bee , what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing de\v ?... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 402 страници
...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 vernal wood f The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the... | |
 | 1822 - 284 страници
...bursting into birth. Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious on the tainted green ! Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood To...extracts the healing dew! How Instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compared, half reasoning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that and Reason what a nice... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 372 страници
...between, And hound sagacious to the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 2L5i To that which warbles through the vernal wood,-! The...: In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ? 220: How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, j Compar'd,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1822 - 658 страници
...: 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...bee, what sense so subtly true ! From poisonous herbs extracting healthy dew ; How instinct varies in the groveling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 страници
...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 at...: In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ? 220 How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd,... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 страници
...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.... | |
 | 1840 - 1122 страници
...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 Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 страници
...the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; 1 How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine I 'Twixt... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 страници
...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...: In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ; 220 How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd,... | |
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