 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 11by Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1817 - 348 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... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 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... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 360 pages
...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 vernal wood ; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 344 pages
...every 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... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 pages
...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 head-long lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; — Of hearing, —... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight s grief appears. Her eyes half-languishing, half-drown'd in tear*. smeU, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Human beings - 1820 - 80 pages
...mounts to man's imperial race, From the green miriads in the peopled grass! If hat 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: ,0f hearing, from the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1821 - 86 pages
...mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beanx.; Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And 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... | |
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