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 - Pàgina 11per Alexander Pope - 1772 - 351 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pàgines
...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 - 1840 - 352 pàgines
...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... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pàgines
...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 - 1843 - 826 pàgines
...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 - 94 pàgines
...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 - 490 pàgines
...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 - 524 pàgines
...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 - 468 pàgines
...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 - 468 pàgines
...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 - 1848 - 452 pàgines
...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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