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 - 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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:... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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