 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 332 pagina’s
...the lynx's beam ! Of smell, the headlong lioness between And hound sagacious on the tainted green I Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood To...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1853 - 838 pagina’s
...lioness between, And hound sagacious, on the tainted gn-en; Of hearing, from the life that fills ihe flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood;...fine. Feels at each thread, and lives along the line, His picture of the dying pheasant is in everyone's memory ,t and possibly the lines of his winter-piece... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 336 pagina’s
...of this defect of saent 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 poisonous herbs extract the healing dew? 220 How... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1853 - 342 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 poisonous herbs extract the healing dew? 220 How... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pagina’s
...plain reason, Man is not a Fly. (Fr. Epistle I) 70 Die of a rose in aromatic pain? (Fr. Epistle I) 71 e, A mir (Fr. Epistle I) 72 Vast chain of Being, which from God began. Natures aethereal, human, angel, man,... | |
 | Bonnie Kime Scott - 1996 - 376 pagina’s
...quotation for Woolf 's, admiring the rare sensitivity of the spider as it lives off the lines of its web: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. (Essay on Man 11. 217-218) In noncanonical Native American writing, we encounter webs through "Thought-Woman,... | |
 | Bonnie Kime Scott - 1996 - 376 pagina’s
...quotation for Woolf's, admiring the rare sensitivity of the spider as it lives off the lines of its web: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. (Essay on Man 11. 217-218) In noncanonical Native American writing, we encounter webs through "Thought-Woman,... | |
 | Marcia Bonta - 1995 - 276 pagina’s
...monster! This beautiful creature, with her exquisite web, is one of the most charming studies in nature. "The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." She is readily tamed, and her solicitude over her great pear-shaped cocoon of eggs is often quite pathetic.... | |
 | Eric Gerald Stanley - 1996 - 564 pagina’s
...inter animalia anulosi corporis viget in aranea sensus tactus. Cf. Pope, Essay on Man, II, 217-18: 'The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! / Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.' 33 Speculum naturale, XX, 117. 34 De animalibus, VIII, tr. iv, ca. 1. Aristotle says exactly the same... | |
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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... 
