 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1841 - 612 pages
...wide extreme— The mole'Rdim curlain, and the lynx's beam. Of smell, the headlong lioness between, The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. To the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poia'nous herbs extracts the healing dew. How instinct... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1832 - 86 pages
...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : 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, ComparM, half-reas'ning elephant, with thine ! 'Twixt that and reason, what a nice barrier ! For ever... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 pages
...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! The...true, From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew? How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd half-reas'ning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The...fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : nature, the love of mental exertion would be lost with its necessity, and he must relapse into the... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 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... | |
 | 1835 - 742 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 - 1836 - 332 pages
...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The...line; In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ? 220 How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compared,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 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
...tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the venial like his Maker, poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the groveling swine. Compared, half-reasoning... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 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... | |
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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 through... 
