 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...  Der Mensch, ein philosophisches Gedicht - Page 9by Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | British anthology - 1825
...it mounts to 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, from the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 524 pages
...mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1826 - 312 pages
...mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And bound sagacious, 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 fine ! Feels... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829
...different habits and dresses, according to the mode that prevailed. Addison on Medals. 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. Pope. If faith itself... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1830 - 442 pages
...mounts toman's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled gran : 210 Whtí modes of sight ntroduction of the polite arts of Greece had given the »riiers of his time smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 300 pages
...it mounts to 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, from the... | |
 | Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 160 pages
...mole'a 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 vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine' Feels at each... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1835
...mounts to man's imperial race From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839
...it mounts, to Man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight villa let us pass a day1, Where all cry out, " What sums are thrown away !" smell, the headlong lioness* between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the... | |
 | Brandon Turner - 1840
...— Matt. xxi. 28. " Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke." — Gray. " What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain and the lynx's beam ! Of hearing from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood." — Pope.... | |
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