 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - 630 pagina’s
...which the Spider emits the threads used in spinning its web. This web is wonderful in its formation. " The Spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." POPE. The Spider sits in the middle, and at the least motion caused by a fly or other insect pressing... | |
 | 1921 - 1154 pagina’s
...not man a microscopic eye ? and the lynx's beam. . . . And hound sagacious on the tainted green .... The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread and lives along the line. (Gray clearly liked his Latin for this last line for it occurs again in another Latin poem of his 'De... | |
 | Anne Wright - 1851 - 354 pagina’s
...2 loose threads, and the moment one of them trembles, she darts out to see what is going on. " Oh ! the spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." As I have already mentioned the spider's treatment of the entangled fly, in pages 186 and 187, I need... | |
 | Henry Schroeder - 1852 - 424 pagina’s
...beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green, Of heariug, from the life that fills the flood, To that which...pungency of the Satiric point, the felicity of the well turned Compliment, as the distinctive features of Pope's poetical excellence, it should not escape... | |
 | Naturalist pseud, Edward Wilson (M.A., F.L.S.) - 1852 - 444 pagina’s
...ascends : Mark how it mounts, to man's imperial race, 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 : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ? How instinct... | |
 | 1852 - 874 pagina’s
...ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled gross : e * In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How Instinct... | |
 | Henry Schroder - 1852 - 450 pagina’s
...hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that wliich warbles through the vernal wood; ^' The spider's touch,...fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." 1850 What a couplet again is that ! It is only about a spider ; but I guarantee its immortality. If... | |
 | Henry Schroder - 1852 - 430 pagina’s
...Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood; A- D. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." 1850 What a couplet again is that ! It is only about a spider ; but I guarantee its immortality. If... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pagina’s
...nets spiders are regulated chiefly by the sense of touch, which they possess in high perfection. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ; Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." They find out when they have the full number of rays by going to the centre and touching each in succession... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pagina’s
...from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spiders 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 ! 220 How... | |
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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... 
