 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 headlong lioness between, and hound sagacious on the tainted green ; of hearing,...  The annals of Yorkshire - Page 201by Henry Schroeder - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1777 - 262 pages
...beam : Of fmell, the headlong lionefs between, And hound fugacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1778 - 410 pages
...Of fmell, the headlong lionefs between, 205 And hound fagacicrus on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that 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 : 210 In the nice... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1783 - 322 pages
...Of fmell, the headlong lionefs between, ' • And hound fagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1791 - 966 pages
...beam ! Of fmcll, the headlong lionefs between, Aiid hound fagacious on the tainted green ! Of hearing, er demands fpider's touch, how cxquifitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line ! In the nice... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 906 pages
...; : Of fmell, the headlong lionefs between, And houndífagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The fpider's touch, how cxquifitcly fiue '. Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...on the tainted green : Of hearing, from 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 along the line : In the nice bee — what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ? How... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1804 - 232 pages
...on the tainted green ? Of hearing from the life that fills the flood 215 To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood ? The spider's touch how exquisitely...fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ! 220 How... | |
 | English poetry - 1806 - 408 pages
...beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green: 0/hearing, from the life that fills the flood. To that which...fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ? How instinct... | |
 | 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 - 1807 - 474 pages
...on the tainted green ! Of hearing, from 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 along the line : la the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct... | |
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