 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822
...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 - 1822
...Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal woqd ! 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 extracts the healing dew ? 220 How... | |
 | 1840
...In worlds enclosed, should on his senses burst, From cates ambrosial, and the nectai'd bowl, • " The spider's touch how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." POPE'S " Essay on Man." He would abhorrent turn ; and in dead night, When silence slept o'er all, be... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 822 Seiten
...powers ascends: Mark bow it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : se @ +/ : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew 1 How instinct... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 67 Seiten
...between, And 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 pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ! 220 How... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...between, And 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 pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ; 220 How... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824
...between, And 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 pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ; 220 How... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 300 Seiten
...green: Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood! 24 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 extracts the healing dew! How instinct... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - 120 Seiten
...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 hves along the line ; In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From pois'nous herbs extracts the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 524 Seiten
...ascende : 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...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... 
