 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 vernal •wood; The spider's touch, how exquisitely...  Philosophical Essays - Page 373by Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 580 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...: 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
...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
...green: 0/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 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, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...green! Of hearing, from the life that tills the flood To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nic« bee what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...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 each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice hee what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809 - 604 pages
...Of hearing, from the life that fills tlie flood. To that which warbles through the vernal wood! 'Hie < ; ,t59> 5^?_?c2 In the nice bee what sense so subtly true from pots'nous herbs extracts the healing dew? How instinct... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 pages
...perception of those delicate shades in character and manners, which are objects of study to the man of the world. * In this last sense, the English proverbial..." 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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