 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...would despair , if they were not cherished by our virtues. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon , In corporal...sufferance, feels a- pang as great As when a giant dies, How far the little candle throws Iiis beams I So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Love all ,... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1804 - 254 pages
...would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. The sense of death is most in apprehension.; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, • In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great, A& when a giant dies. How far the little candle throws his beam, So shines a good deed in a naughty... | |
 | Francis Douce - 1807 - 528 pages
...severing. Of the parallel passages already cited, this is not the least so, from Measure for measure ; " in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. Sc. 4. p. 98. [they rise to depart. Mr. Ridley's note is very judiciously introduced to get rid of... | |
 | William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. ' The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance feels a pang as great, As when a giant dies. How far the little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ' Love all,... | |
 | Sir Robert Ker Porter - 1809 - 500 pages
...poor hares; 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... | |
 | Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - 1810 - 172 pages
...Proverbs. BLESSED ire the merciful ; for they shall obtain MERCY. St. Matthew, v. 7. " The poorest beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." Shaksytnre. Wnittlugham and Rowland, Printers, Coswell Street, London. ERRATA. Argument, Book I. line... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues. The WDM of death is most in apprehension ; and the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great, Ai when a giant dip. From Enfield's Speaker* MAXIMS. PROEM. Just as the bee collects her sweets, From... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...Seivoi^s irru^ot "]s ODYSS. "f 'OTTI fj.xfC ov Stivctieg o$ a.8otv<xToi<r And when Shakespeare- — " E'en the poor Beetle that we tread upon, " In corporal sufferance feels a pang a» great " As when a Giant falls." And in another passage — " Take physic, Pomp, " Expose thyself... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - 1813 - 568 pages
...(the Reverse of which, the First of our POETS inculcates, telling us, " That the poor Beetle which we tread upon, In corporal Sufferance feels a Pang as great, As when a GIANT dies,") he ought to know, that, even with every Cabbage he devours, the Lives of more Animals are destroyed,... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - 1813 - 820 pages
...(the Reverse of which, the First of our POETS inculcates, telling us, " That the poor Beetle which we tread upon, In corporal Sufferance feels a Pang as great, As when a GlANT dies,") he ought to know, that, even with every Cabbage he devours, the Lives of more .Annuals... | |
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The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
