 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
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...ascends: Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green miriads in the peopled grass! If hat modes of sight, betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green: ,0f hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood, The... | |
 | Charles RICHSON - 1820 - 98 pages
...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 mole's dim curtain, — and the lynx's beam ;Of smell,-the head-long lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; — Of hearing, —... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : he nymph in beauteous grief appears. Her eyes half-languishing, half-drown'd in tear*. smeU, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 402 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 252 pages
...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...life that fills the flood , To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood ? The spider's touch , how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread , and lives... | |
 | Alexander Jamieson - Natural history - 1821 - 448 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...the tainted green: Of hearing, from the life that nils the flood, To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitively... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1821 - 268 pages
...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 liound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...ascends ; Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 What modes of sight, betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beanx.; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Education - 1822 - 510 pages
...immediately apparent to a child :— " What modes of sight betwixt each vast extreme, " The mole's dun curtain, and the lynx's beam; " Of smell the headlong..." And hound sagacious on the tainted green." " Of smell." A girl of ten yeats old (C ) was asked if she could tell what substantive the word " of relates... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 370 pages
...suppositions, destroy their own foundations. Mankind is exposed, as well as other animals, VOL. III. D What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : NOTES. to many inconveniences and to various evils, by the constitution of the world. The world was... | |
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