 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...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...To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider s touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...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...To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The tpider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line ' In the nice... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1817 - 348 pages
...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...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 lives along... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. SPENSER. t The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. POPE. maimed or bruised, and a new limb is gradually formed. Like some of the crabs, lobsters are said1... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 568 pages
...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." JVT. Homberg tells us that he has seen a vigorous wasp Carried off and destroyed by one of these species,... | |
 | Thomas Boreman - Animals - 1818 - 420 pages
...the Icq, 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 iim-. POPE'S ESSAV ON MA-/. He sits in the middle, and the least motion, caused by a fly or other insect... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 360 pages
...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,...fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. His picture of the dying pheasant is in every one's memory, and possibly the lines of his winter piece... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 pages
...green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the Hood, To that which warhles through the vernal woodl The spider's touch how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line; ln the nice hee, what ssnre so suhtly true, From poisonous herhs extraets the healing dew 1 220 I low... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam ; Of smeU, 0 ԅ⁀ S π Ł ˓ l 0 Hood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Keels... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 pages
...sight betwixt each. wide extreme,: — The mole's dim curtain, — and the lynx's beam ;Of smell,-the head-long lioness between, And hound sagacious on...; — Of hearing, — from the life that fills the flood,To that which warbles through the vernal wood, The spider's touch how exquisitely fine !. Feels... | |
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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... 
