 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 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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 lehte
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 lehte
...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 y between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from... | |
 | 1891 - 672 lehte
...for speed and sharp sight," and quotes Pope as an illustration, who says : — What modes of eight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain and the lynx's beam. Many older authorities for the lynx's sharpness of sight could be produced. Mr. Francis A. Knight,... | |
 | George William F. Howard (7th earl of Carlisle.) - 1850 - 52 lehte
...descriptive as the bars of Haydn's music in the oratorio of the Creation : — " 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... | |
 | Margaret Lynn - 1907 - 506 lehte
...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 blood, 21s To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch how exquisitely fine... | |
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