 | 1755 - 464 pages
...inimitable Shakefpear would teach us, that — The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal fuff'rance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. And this...thrown out in the latitude of poetical imagination, bur fupported by the difcoveries of the molt improved philofophy : For there is every reafon to believe,... | |
 | William Melmoth - English prose literature - 1758 - 474 pages
...thai, we tread upon', . Jn corp'r&lfuffraiwfrfteka $#ng as great As wben a giant diff* : ^:; . ', ' f And this is not thrown out in the latitude of poetical imagination, but iupported by the difcoveries of the raoft improved phiiofophy : for there is every reafon to believe... | |
 | William Melmoth - English letters - 1769 - 476 pages
...Shakefpeare would teach us, that the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corf ral faff' ranee Jeeh a pang as great As when a giant dies. And this is...thrown out in the latitude of poetical imagination, but fupported by the difcoveriesof themoft improved philofophy : for there is every reafon to believe that... | |
 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 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 Iiis beams I So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Love all ,... | |
 | Noah Webster - Elocution - 1804 - 254 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, A& when a giant dies. How far the little candle throws his beam, So shines a good deed in a naughty... | |
 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 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 - Elocution - 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 - Russia - 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 edifices... | |
 | Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - Animal welfare - 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
...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... | |
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The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
