| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...! Emblem too just of man's degenerate race. 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 evening in the public path, But he that has... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...II. Cruelty to inferior animals censured. 1 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 evening in the public path; But he that has... | |
| James Wallace (ship's surgeon.) - 1824 - 192 pages
...man, whose heart is warm, Whose hands are pure. I would not enter on my list of friends, (Tho' 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 has... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine Yet wanting sensibility) the man, [sense, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine seuso, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at ev'ning iu the public patn ; But he that has... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1825 - 248 pages
...made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced...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 has... | |
| William Cowper - 1825 - 252 pages
...made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced...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 has... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...POPE. SECTION 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 has... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...abode 1.1 WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine fens*, 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 has... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1826 - 242 pages
...taught a brute the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends, 560 (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 publick path ; 565 But he that... | |
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