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 through... The Works of Alexander Pope - Página 35por Alexander Pope - 1822Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| 1808 - 408 páginas
...between, And hound sajacious un t lie tainted creen ! Of hearing, from the life that fills the 0ood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The...touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and li\es alón» the line! In the nice liée what sense so subtly true From pois'uous herbs extracts the... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1808 - 702 páginas
...flood, To that which warbles through the vcni.d wood! The spider's tonch how exquisitely fine! Feelt at each thread, and lives along the line: In the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing drvr ' How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Crnnpur'd,... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1809 - 604 páginas
...Of hearing, from the life that fills tlie flood. To that which warbles through the vernal wood! 'Hie < ; ,t59> 5^?_?c2 pots'nous herbs extracts the healing dew? How instinct varies in the grov'Iing swiite, C'ompar'd, half-reasoning... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that 611s the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The...lives along the line: In the nice bee, what sense sp subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How Instinct varies in the grovelling... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 páginas
...between, And bound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at eaetl thread, and lives along the line: In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 páginas
...that intends; Therefore such forms as she doth cease to see. To memory's large volume she commends. 9 The spider's touch how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Pope's Essay on Man. This ledger-book lies in the brain behind, Like Janus' eye, which in his poll... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 páginas
...some of the insect tribes, seem to enlarge the sphere of this sense, far beyond its ordinary limits. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, " Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." The two circumstances which I have chiefly enlarged upon, in the foregoing observations on the principle... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...of this defect of scent in that terrible animal, Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood ? The...? 220 How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd, half-reas'ning elephant, with thine ! . 'Twixt that, and reason, what a nice barrier ? For... | |
| Daniel Staniford - 1814 - 254 páginas
...fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood, The fpider's touch, how exquifitely fine ! Feels, at each thread, and lives, along the line : In the nice bee, what, fenfe fo fubtly true, From ppiPnous herbs extracts the healing dew ; How inttinct varies in the groveling... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 páginas
...some of the insect tribes, seem to enlarge the sphere of this sense, far beyond its ordinary limits. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, " Feels at each thread, and lives along the line," * Note (P p.) The two circumstances which I have chiefly enlarged upon, in the foregoing observations... | |
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