 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 590 pagina’s
...some of the insect tribes, seem to enlarge the sphere of this sense, far beyond its ordinary limits. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, " Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." The two circumstances which I have chiefly enlarged upon, in the foregoing observations on the principle... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pagina’s
...of this defect of scent in that terrible animal, 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 pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ? 220 How... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 pagina’s
...some of the insect tribes, seem to enlarge the sphere of this sense, far beyond its ordinary limits. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, " 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1817 - 348 pagina’s
...sagacious, on the tainted green: 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 poisonous herbs extracting healthy dew : How instinct... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pagina’s
...his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. SPENSER. t The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. POPE. maimed or bruised, and a new limb is gradually formed. Like some of the crabs, lobsters are said1... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pagina’s
...hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The tpider's touch, how exquisitely 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... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pagina’s
...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 extract* the healing dew ; How instinct... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 pagina’s
...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." JVT. Homberg tells us that he has seen a vigorous wasp Carried off and destroyed by one of these species,... | |
 | Thomas Boreman - 1818 - 420 pagina’s
...the Icq, and serves it to adhere to the threads of the web. The web is wonderful in its formation. " The Spider's touch, how exquisitely fine '. Feels at each thread, and lives along the iim-. POPE'S ESSAV ON MA-/. He sits in the middle, and the least motion, caused by a fly or other insect... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 360 pagina’s
...nature, in which every epithet is a decisive touch, as, From the green myriads in the peopled grass, What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. His picture of the dying pheasant is in every one's memory, and possibly the lines of his winter piece... | |
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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... 
