 | British anthology - 1825
...powers 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 troe, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct... | |
 | Henry Phillips - 1825 - 352 Seiten
...together, Allliction alters." ' Winter's Tale. ADROITNESS. SPIDF.R OPIIRYS.—Ofthrys aranifcra. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." Pope. This fiower is made emblematical of adroitness or skill'ulness, in allusion to the insect it... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828
...ascends : Hark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 21O 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, 220 From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How... | |
 | 1829 - 476 Seiten
...the leg, 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 line. POPE. He sits in the middle, and the least motion, caused by a fly or other insect rushing against... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829
...mistake in this. Arhuihnot's History of John Bull. Оле clip the pencil, and one touch the lyre. Pope. The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Id. lie gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; To shew, by one satirick... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829
...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... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)
...fate. Like thee confined to noisome garret. And rudely banished rooms of state. Lil'lelim. The spider'i touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Ptye. SPIDER, in entomology. See ARANEA and ENTOMOLOGY. SPIDER, SHF.PUF.RD. See PBALANOIUM. SPIDERWOKT,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 300 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1841
...wide extreme— The mole'Rdim curlain, and the lynx's beam. Of smell, the headlong lioness between, The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. To the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poia'nous herbs extracts the healing dew. How instinct... | |
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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... 
