 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
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806
...therefore manifeft. , I thank thee, O my Creator ! that I am placed in a rank, low What modes of fight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : Of NOTES. low in the whole order of being, but the firft in that animal fyftem to which I belong : a rank... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1807
...mole's dim curtain and the lynx's heam ! Of smell, the headlong lioness hetween And hound sagacious on the tainted green ! Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood 215 The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at eacli tbread, and lives ai.jng the line: In the... | |
 | Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808
...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 bound sagacious on the tainted green! Of hearing, from the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1808
...it mounts to man's imperial race From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of siglit 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English poetry - 1809
...mounts to Man's imperial race, From the green mxriads in the peopled grass : Mr hat modes of sight , few here would scruple mate : But, pray, which of you all would take her smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green ! Of hearing, from the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810
...mole'g d'"> 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 flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 546 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 hea- Hong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green; Of hearing, from the... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812
...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 to the tainted green : Of VER. 213. the headlong... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1814 - 240 pages
...Man's imperial race, From the green myriad's in t'je peopled ilrafs : What mocks of fight betwixt ea«b wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain and the lynx's...Of fmell, the headlong lionefs between, And hound figacious on the tainted green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814
...mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopl'd grass: 210 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam I Of smell, the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from... | |
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