 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
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840
...the bird's sufferings to make us admire its feathers. The fourth line is perfect. 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 im the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - English literature - 1840
...the bird's sufferings to make us admire its feathers. The fourth line is perfect. 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 mi the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | 1841
...mole's dim curtain, and the lynx'e beam ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sncacious - . / To thai which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 807 pages
...it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight mal situation, wasie and wild ; A smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 48 pages
...mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : T Of smell, the headlong lioness between, A hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845
...it mounts to man's imperial race From the green myriads1 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 - 1847
...have no image in the language more lively than that of the last verse. " To live 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 436 pages
...epithet is a decisive touch, as — " 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848
...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1848 - 436 pages
...epithet is a decisive touch, as — " 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... | |
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