 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 pàgines
...; Of smell, the headlong lionefcs between. And hound sagacious, on the tainted green ; Of bearing, g a while, in sullen mood Droops the sweet mourner...pecks its food, And meditates the song : Serenely sor Uvoo along the line. His picture of the dying pheasant is in every one's memory t, and possibly the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 pàgines
...between, A 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 : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! 220 How... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pàgines
...sensual, mental powers ascends ; Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race From the green myriads1 in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt...fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense, so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ? How... | |
 | E. Whimper - 1845 - 204 pàgines
...which it spins ; so delicately fine is it, that the slightest accident will break and destroy it. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." The spider sits in the middle of its web, and at the least motion, caused by a fly or other insect... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 pàgines
...toes give it warning of prey being at hand, when it rushes out and seldom fails to secure its victim. "The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." M. Homberg tells us that he has seen a vigorous wasp carried off and destroyed by one of these species.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 pàgines
...between, And hound sagacious, on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 21 5 To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The...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... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 316 pàgines
...there is no end of his greatness.' Psalm cxlv. 3." * Rev.W. Gould, MA Account of English Ants, 1747. The Spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. THE SPIDER, AS AN EXAMPLE OF PERSEVERANCE. IN endeavouring to secure the good, and to avoid the evil,... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pàgines
...range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass ; What...fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pàgines
...sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warhles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch how exquisitely...! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line; In the nice hee, what sense so suhtly true, From poisonous herhs extracts the healing dew ? 220 How... | |
 | Charles Maybury Archer - 1848 - 292 pàgines
...within two or three years, be covered with network like a spider's web" — recalling Pope's lines : " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." We have only to add, that the Illustrations are from the elegant pencil of William Harvey, who has,... | |
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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... 
