| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 450 pages
...some of the insect tribes, seem to enlarge the sphere of this sense, far beyond its ordinary limits. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." The two circumstances which I have chiefly enlarged upon, in the foregoing observations on the principle... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 454 pages
...some of the insect tribes, seem to enlarge the sphere of this sense, far beyond its ordinary limits. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, • Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." The two circumstances which I have chiefly enlarged upon, in the foregoing observations on the principle... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 878 pages
...mistake in this. Arhuihnot's History of John Bull. Оле clip the pencil, and one touch the lyre. Pope. The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Id. lie gave the little wealth he had To build a house for fools and mad ; To shew, by one satirick... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 424 pages
...fate. Like thee confined to noisome garret. And rudely banished rooms of state. Lil'lelim. The spider'i touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. Ptye. SPIDER, in entomology. See ARANEA and ENTOMOLOGY. SPIDER, SHF.PUF.RD. See PBALANOIUM. SPIDERWOKT,... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 418 pages
...*"É> f What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, and the lynx's team ; Of smell, the headlong lioness between. And hound sagacious on the tainted green. Pope. If faith itself has diffrent dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn ?... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...myriads in the peopled gran : 210 Whtí modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme, The mole's dim curtain, the »riiers of his time great advantages over their...those ancient poets restrained ; that ntire and c through the vemal wood ! The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feeb at each thread, and lives along... | |
| Jesse Torrey - 1830 - 336 pages
...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...the life that fills the flood, To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! 24 The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives... | |
| Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1841 - 612 pages
...wide extreme— The mole'Rdim curlain, and the lynx's beam. Of smell, the headlong lioness between, The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine, Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. To the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poia'nous herbs extracts the healing dew. How instinct... | |
| Samuel B. EMMONS - 1832 - 168 pages
...myriads in the peopled grass: What modes of sight betwixt each wide extreme. The mole'a dim curtain and the lynx's beam: Of smell, the headlong lioness...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... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...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...; 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... | |
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