 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...  Poetical Works - Page 34by Alexander Pope - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - Education - 1835 - 572 pages
...immediately apparent to a child;—> N3 298 PRACTICAL EDUCATION. " What modes of sight between each vast extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam;...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green." asked if she could tell what substantive the word "of" " Of smell." A girl of ten years old (C ) was... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 370 pages
...writer — a singular paradox — an example of power exhibited in the description of a spider's web ! " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." Here we have distinct ideas of the most delicate sensibility, the most acute perception, and the wonderful... | |
 | English essays - 1835 - 744 pages
...perhaps we do not know even the subtle, invisible, atmospheric agents by which it is guided. Pope says. The spider's touch how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread and lives along the line. How far are we from comprehending the faculties with which these incredible, or all but incredible... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 336 pages
...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,...each thread, and lives along the line; In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ? 220 How instinct varies... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that tills the flood. To that which warhles all space, Whose altar, earth, sea, skies ! One chorus : 'a the nice hee, what sense so suhtly true, From poisonous herhs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...it mounts, to Man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight villa let us pass a day1, Where all cry out, " What...dwells in such a draught As brings all Brobdignag befor venial wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - Poets, English - 1839 - 388 pages
...philosophical poem, it is essentially a religious poem also. * Condensed by Pope into a famous couplet: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. — Essay on Man. It has nothing of Lucretius, but the majesty. The dependence of man upon a merciful... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...the bird's sufferings to make us admire its feathers. The fourth line is perfect. What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain,...the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious im the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that Jills t/tejiood, To that which warbles through... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840 - 352 pages
...the bird's sufferings to make us admire its feathers. The fourth line is perfect. What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain,...the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious mi the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life thut fills the flood, To that which warbles through... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 716 pages
...perfect. What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The moles dim curtain, and the lynr's bium ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound...the tainted green ; Of hearing:, from the life that Jills thejiood, To that which warbles through the rental wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely... | |
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