 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...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...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 life that... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...green myriads in the peopled grass : 210 What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 pages
...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...the headlong lioness between, And hound sagacious to the tainted green : Of VER. 213. the headlong lioness] The manner of the lions hunting their prey... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1814 - 254 pages
...mole's dim curtain and the lynx's beam : 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 through the vernal wood, The fpider's touch, how exquifitely fine ! Feels, at each thread, and lives,... | |
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...ascends : Mark how it 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... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1815 - 526 pages
...lines, for example, may not be immediately apparent to a child. " What modes of sight betwixt each vast extreme, " The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's..." And hound sagacious on the tainted green." " Of smell." A girl of ten years old (C ) was asked if she could tell what substantive the word " of" relates... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pages
...ascends; Mark how it mounts, to Man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood. The spider s touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives... | |
 | Richard Lobb - 1817 - 418 pages
...powers ascends : Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race, From the green myriads in the peopled grass; What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The tpider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives... | |
 | 1817 - 314 pages
...powers ascends: Mark how it mounts to man's imperial race From the green myriads in the peopled grass : What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...the life that fills the flood To that which warbles through the vernal wood.; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine 1 Feels at each thread, and lives... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1819 - 360 pages
...nature, in which every epithet is a decisive touch, as, From the green myriads in the peopled grass, What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The...the life that fills the flood, 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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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... 
