 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 thro...  The Poetical Works - Page 18by Alexander Pope - 1828Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English Language - 1805 - 972 pages
...[berpeonan, betpman, Saxon ; from the original word tpa, /IfO.] 1. In the intermediate space. What modes Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious on the tainted green! Peft. 2. From one to another : noting intersou rse. He should think himself unhappy, if thinjs should... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...pow'rs ascends: Mark how it mounts to Man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass: What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme. The...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green: 0/hearing, from the life that fills the flood. To that which warbles through the vernal wood? The spider's... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...or meditate, than in the middle of a sea-fight." 1 3. From the green myriads iu the peopled grass— The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smell...between. And hound sagacious on the tainted green : The spider's touch how exquisitely fine. Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.f These lines... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...lynx's beam ; . . Of smell the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : The spider's touch how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.f These lines are selected as admirable patterns of forcible diction. The peculiar and discriminating... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 472 pages
...therefore maniO feft. I thank thee, O my Creator ! that I am placed in a rank, low What modes of fight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of NOTES. i low in the whole order of being, but the firft in that animal fyfteni to which I lielong :... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...therefore manifeft. , I thank thee, O my Creator ! that I am placed in a rank, low What modes of fight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of NOTES. low in the whole order of being, but the firft in that animal fyftem to which I belong : a rank... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 474 pages
...pow'rs ascends: Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...the life that fills the flood To that which warbles throngh the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807 - 316 pages
...each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain and the lynx's heam ! Of smell, the headlong lioness hetween And hound sagacious on the tainted green ! Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood 215 The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at eacli tbread, and lives ai.jng the line: In... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1808 - 694 pages
...ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass r What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And bound sagacious on the tainted green ; L Ot hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...beam ! Of smell, the headlong lioness between And bound sagacious on the tainted green! Of hearing, from the life that tills the flood To that which... | |
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