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" 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 18
by Alexander Pope - 1828
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The Works of Alexander Pope;, Volume 3

Alexander Pope - 1822 - 368 pages
...arbitrary suppositions, destroy their own foundations. Mankind is exposed, as well as other animals, What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : to many inconveniences and to various evils, by the constitution of the world. The world was not,...
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 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 mole's dim curtain and the lynx's beam ! 8. See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick and bursting into birth. Of...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1840 - 1122 pages
...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...
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An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History ..., Volume 1

William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1822 - 618 pages
...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....
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 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...flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! 24 The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! . • Feels at each thread, and lives along the line:...
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Scriptural & Philosophical Arguments, Or Cogent Proofs from Reason ...

Peter Buchan - 1824 - 164 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...the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood ; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine j Feels at each thread, and lives...
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An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 80 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...: Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 430 pages
...original, though it is evident he took pains about it. See his four lines on the spider : Contemplez Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound...: Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels...
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The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - 1824 - 422 pages
...Warton. 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 beam : NOTES. Ver. 209. Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race,] M. du Resnel has turned the latter...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by ..., Volume 5

Alexander Pope - English literature - 1824 - 424 pages
...Wurton. 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 beam : NOTES. Ver. 209. Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race,] M. du Resnel has turned the latter...
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