 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 Seiten
...brute the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets font upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 Seiten
...IV. Cruelty to brutes censured. 1 WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
 | 1826 - 440 Seiten
...or towards any part of the Creator's works, are evinced by the followmg striking lines— " I wpuld not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with...sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening m the public path; But he that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 Seiten
...the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends, 560 (Though ffrac.'d with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility.) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at pv'ning in the publick path ; 565 But... | |
 | William Jevons - 1827 - 424 Seiten
...says an amiable poet, \ * v . " I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polish'd manners, and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
 | Poetical ladder - 1827 - 94 Seiten
...me all. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish 'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step tray crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
 | 1827 - 290 Seiten
...storm. His hour was come. ***** I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac.d with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path j But he that... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1827 - 270 Seiten
...I think of Cowper's lines : ' I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 Seiten
...*VCruelty to brutes censured. 1. I WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with pohsh'd manners and fine sense) Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evenirg in the publick path; But he that... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 Seiten
...to the bee, that poets, the worst entomologists in the world, have led us astray. Cowper says, ' I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.' By worm, we wonder if he included the grub-worm. Alas... | |
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I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. 
