 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 332 pages
...wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies ? VII. Far as creation's ample range extends. The ocale of sensual, mental, powers ascends : Mark how it mounts...race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies? VII. Far as creation's ample range extends, The scale envy, Windsor ! since thy shades have seen An bright...goddess, and as chaste a queen ; Whose care, like here, : 210 What modes of sight hetwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's heam ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poetry - 1963 - 884 pages
...gives, and what denies ? vII. Far as Creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it 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, and the lynx's beam: Of... | |
 | Arthur O. Lovejoy - Philosophy - 1936 - 404 pages
...the more edifying aspect of Bolingbroke's via media: Far as Creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends: Mark how it mounts...race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass. . . . How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! "Twixt... | |
 | Yasmine Gooneratne - Literary Criticism - 1976 - 164 pages
...animal-life, with lines like Far as Creation's ample range extends, 207 The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends: Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass: Destructive as we know him to be, indifferent and hostile to the creatures around him, Man has no claim... | |
 | Stephen Jay Gould - Nature - 1985 - 484 pages
...drop of water to ever more complex beings, culminating in, you guessed it, our own exalted selves. Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, from the green myriads in the peopled grass. wrote Alexander Pope in his expostulations in heroic couplets from the Essay on Man. Since we tend... | |
 | Matt Cartmill - History - 1996 - 352 pages
...thinness of the dividing line: Far as Creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends: Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass . . . How Instinct varies in the grovMing swine, Compar'd, half-reas'ning elephant, with thine: Twixt... | |
 | Kevin Hart - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 254 pages
...Creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends: Mark how it mounts, the Man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the...lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious on the tainted green . . .30 And so the poem goes on, for page after elegant page.... | |
 | Adam Lively - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 306 pages
...himself was a widespread literary trope, elaborated most famously in Alexander Pope's Essay on Man ('Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, / From the green myriads in the peopled grass'). The last major English defence of it as a scientific explanation of the natural world was physician... | |
 | Diana Donald - Art - 2007 - 402 pages
...being, which from God began': Far as Creation's ample range extends, The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends: Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race,...beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green 10 However, this ancient notion of a 'Great Chain', envisioned... | |
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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... 
