 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 the vernal •wood; The spider's touch, how exquisitely...  Philosophical Essays - Side 373af Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 580 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 sider
...grtai ; Of bearing, from the life Ikat jilU tkt jiaad, To Hat tchiih ttarblet tkrvugk the rrnatvood! The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along tke line. These passages, (to which could be added many others of equal excellence from the same writer,)... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sider
...green ; Of hearing, from the life that fills the flood, To thai which warbles through the vernal wood ! D * 佼@ ļ \d d j v8 W 4 =6G % B0l f ƪ NK N vy Ib #[oݺYԚ T x : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How Instinct... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 sider
...— a singular paradox — an example of power exdibi ted in the description of a spider's web ! " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." Here we have distinct ideas of the most delicate sensibility, the most acute perception, and the wonderful... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 sider
...hearing, from the life that fills the flood. To that which warbles through the vernal wood ! The ipider's se array; So wide they stood, and like a furnace mouth Cast forth redounding : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! How Instinct... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1844 - 94 sider
...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 along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ! 220 How... | |
 | E. Whimper - 1845 - 204 sider
...which it spins ; so delicately fine is it, that the slightest accident will break and destroy it. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." The spider sits in the middle of its web, and at the least motion, caused by a fly or other insect pressing... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 sider
...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 bee, what sense, so subtly true, From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew ? How... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 sider
...toes give it warning of 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." M. Homberg tells us that he has seen a vigorous wasp carried off and destroyed by one of these species.... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 316 sider
...nets spiders are regulated chiefly by the sense of touch, which they possess in high perfection. " The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine ! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." They find out when they have the full number of rays by going to the centre and touching each in succession... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 524 sider
...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 at each thread, and lives along the line : In the nice bee, what sense so subtly true, From pois'nous herbs extracts the healing dew ; 220 How... | |
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