 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 524 Seiten
...shudder at cutting the throat of a dog; but it should always be remembered, that the least of these " In mortal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." H. The farmer having (as I suppose by their talk) received such an account of me as his servant could... | |
 | Sir Robert Ker Porter - 1809 - 500 Seiten
...for, as I looked on their writhing limbs, I could not but think that this little animal in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies; and marvelling at the contradictory nature of man, I directed my course towards some of the public edifices... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 Seiten
...shudder at cutting the throat of a dog; but it should always be remembered, that the least of these " In mortal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." •• ! ;. cle about me, the better to observe my motions. I pulled off my hat, and made a low bow... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 Seiten
...shuduer at cutting the throat of a dog; but it should always be remembered, that the least of these " ID mortal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." H. cle about me, the better to observe my motions. I pulled off rny hat, and made a low bow towards... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1818 - 338 Seiten
...strong, "As proofs of Holy Writ.'* That • " The poor beetle, which we tread upon, '• In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great " As when a giant dies." And that a voung woman in love •/ C7 always looks " like Patience on a monument " Smiling at Grief."... | |
 | Thomas Zouch, Francis Wrangham - 1820 - 466 Seiten
...most exquisite torture * of numberless animals in process of time impaled on a hook, each of whom " in mortal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." Let Mr. Z., under this consideration, represent to himself the whole course of Walton's life ; and... | |
 | 1821 - 336 Seiten
...But the inimitable Shakspeare would teach us, that he poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. And this is not thrown out in the latitude of poetical imagination, but supported by the discoveries of... | |
 | 1843 - 582 Seiten
...this regard fallen into a great error when he tells us, that — " the poor beetle that we tread upon In mortal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." The philosopher, better informed than the poet, is glad to learn that the whole class of unprotected... | |
 | 1835 - 638 Seiten
...fly-fishers from the charge of cruelty. It is very true that Shakspear says, "The poor beetle that wn tread on, in mortal sufferance, feels a pang as great...it is as false as it is poetical. There is a scale tbroughout nature, and that scale has been divided by unerring justice. Man is at the summit of this... | |
 | Mary Milner - 1851 - 816 Seiten
...diminutive creature's capacity of suffering ; he knows not that the poor beetle that he treads upon, " In mortal sufferance feels a pang as great, As when a giant dies." This species of cruelty may often be prevented or diminished, by imparting to a child information respecting... | |
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And that a young woman in love always looks "Like Patience on a monument, Smiling at Grief. 
