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... The Works of Alexander Pope - Página 35por Alexander Pope - 1822Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 332 páginas
...between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The...line; In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ? 220 How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compared,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1836 - 502 páginas
...sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that tills the flood. To that which warhles all space, Whose altar, earth, sea, skies ! One chorus : 'a the nice hee, what sense so suhtly true, From poisonous herhs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 páginas
...tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the venial like his Maker, poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the groveling swine. Compared, half-reasoning... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott - 1839 - 388 páginas
...philosophical poem, it is essentially a religious poem also. * Condensed by Pope into a famous couplet: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. — Essay on Man. It has nothing of Lucretius, but the majesty. The dependence of man upon a merciful... | |
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 352 páginas
...between, And hound sagacious mi the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life thut fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The...fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. These passages, (to which could be added many others of equal excellence from the same writer,) are... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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.... | |
| Bonnie Kime Scott - 1996 - 376 páginas
...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,... | |
| Eric Gerald Stanley - 1996 - 564 páginas
...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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