 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1824 - 84 pages
...215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Fee* at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, F(om pois'noas herbs extracts the healing dew I 220 How instinct varies in the grov'ling swine, Compar'd,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...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 vernal wood! 24 The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! . • Feels at each thread, and lives along the line:... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - 156 pages
...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 thro' the vernal wood : The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ; Feels at each thread, and hves along... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 pages
...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...true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! 220 How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compared, half-reasoning elephant, with thine I... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...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...along the line. In the nice bee, what sense, so subtly troe, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the grovelling swine,... | |
 | Henry Phillips - Emblems - 1825 - 414 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1826 - 322 pages
...on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the floed, To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely...each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice hee, what sense so subtly true ! 1 rom poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew : How instinct varies... | |
 | Edward Bevan - Bee culture - 1827 - 454 pages
...who after observing that there is more poetry than philosophy in the following lines of Pope — " In the nice bee what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew?" says : " It is however much to be questioned whether this noxious honey proves so to the bees themselves."... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1828 - 264 pages
...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...line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, 220 From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How instinct varies in the grovelling swine, Compared,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1828 - 222 pages
...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 vernal WOC J"he spider's touch, how ex.Q/ii8\le\^ few 1 . hat modes of eight betwixt each wide extre Feels... | |
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Man's imperial race from the green myriads in the peopled grass : 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,... 
