 | John Evans (M. D.) - Bees - 1806 - 332 pages
...metheglin, it was still as deleterious as ever. We cannot then concur with the poet, when he asks, " In the nice bee what sense so subtly true " From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew f " at least with regard to man. It is, however, much to be questioned whether this noxious honey proves... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1814 - 254 pages
...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, along the line : In the nice... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy - 1816 - 644 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," * Note (P p.) The two circumstances which I have chiefly enlarged upon, in the foregoing observations... | |
 | English poetry - 1817 - 314 pages
...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...vernal wood.; The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine 1 Feels at each thread, and lives along the line: In the nice bee what sense so subtly true, From poisonous... | |
 | Richard Lobb - Nature study - 1817 - 418 pages
...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 the vernal wood ! The tpider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line ' In the nice... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...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 the vernal wood. The spider s touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. SPENSER. t The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. POPE. maimed or bruised, and a new limb is gradually formed. Like some of the crabs, lobsters are said1... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1817 - 348 pages
...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 thro' the vernal wood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 568 pages
...prey being at hand, when it rushes out and seldom fails to secure its .victim. \ .. • • • * " The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." JVT. Homberg tells us that he has seen a vigorous wasp Carried off and destroyed by one of these species,... | |
 | Thomas Boreman - Animals - 1818 - 420 pages
...the Icq, and serves it to adhere to the threads of the web. The web is wonderful in its formation. " The Spider's touch, how exquisitely fine '. Feels at each thread, and lives along the iim-. POPE'S ESSAV ON MA-/. He sits in the middle, and the least motion, caused by a fly or other insect... | |
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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,... 
