| Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - Liczba stron: 646
...extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends : Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What...and the lynx's beam : Of smell, the headlong lioness y between, And hound sagacious on the tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood,... | |
| 1891 - Liczba stron: 672
...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,... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1904 - Liczba stron: 500
...than night, in which a man sees only as far as he can cast a stone." 3. Pope, " Essay on Man," 1 : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam. 19. In this vision are represented some of the direful effects of anger, beginning with the murder... | |
| George Crabbe - 1905 - Liczba stron: 568
...doom ; Requite the deed, partake a general Curse ; We fell with you, and you should fall with us. ' What modes of sight, betwixt each wide extreme, '...life that fills the flood, ' To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood, 'The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! 'Feels at each thread, and lives... | |
| William John Courthope - 1905 - Liczba stron: 502
...range extends, The scale of sensual, mental powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race From the green myriads in the peopled grass ; What...lioness between And hound sagacious on the tainted green : 1 Lectures en the English Poets, p. 378. y Cited in Pope's Works (Elwin and Courthope), vol. ii.... | |
| George Crabbe - 1905 - Liczba stron: 570
...doom ; Requite the deed, partake a general Curse ; We fell with you, and you should fall with us. ' What modes of sight, betwixt each wide extreme, ' The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's beam : 1 Of smell the head-long lioness between, ' And hound sagacious on the tainted green. 1 Of hearing,... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1906 - Liczba stron: 198
...ascends: Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass: 210 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...green: Of hearing, from the life that fills the Flood, 215 To that which warbles thro' the vernal wood: The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at... | |
| Margaret Lynn - 1907 - Liczba stron: 506
...extends, The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, 210 From the green myriads in the peopled grass ; What...tainted green: Of hearing, from the life that fills the blood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch how exquisitely fine... | |
| Margaret Lynn - 1907 - Liczba stron: 528
...extends, The scale of sensual, mental pow'rs ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, 210 From the green myriads in the peopled grass ; What...tainted green : Of hearing, from the life that fills the blood, 215 To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The spider's touch how exquisitely fine... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1907 - Liczba stron: 616
...ascends. Mark how it mounts, to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...: Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, 21 5 To that which warbles through the vernal wood : The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels... | |
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