 | Henry Meade Bland - Children's literature - 1912 - 120 pages
...lost no time. — Francis Bacon. 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. In the morning sow thy seed, in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not whether... | |
 | Will David Howe - Readers - 1912 - 318 pages
...it was called Rome after him. 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. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that... | |
 | James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - Readers - 1912 - 380 pages
...Sir Walter Scott. NEEDLESS PAIN 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. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that... | |
 | Pauline Frost Rafter - Readers - 1912 - 316 pages
...they are happy ! " ANDREW LANG. 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. WILLIAM COWPEE. There dwelt a miller hale and bold Beside the river Dee ; He worked and sang... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1913 - 132 pages
...latter we find the lines : ** 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." PAGE 46 "Annihilating all that's made," etc.; quoted from Tht Garden, by Andrew Marvell (1620-1678).... | |
 | Alastair St. Clair Mackenzie - English literature - 1914 - 520 pages
...that he knows no more. — Bk. VI, 96-97. And — I would not enter on my list of friends (Tho' graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting...sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. — Bk. VI, 560-563. Cowper's Literary Position. — The author of the Olney Hymns ranks among... | |
 | Durant Drake - Conduct of life - 1914 - 480 pages
...We must say with Cowper — "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." This does not necessarily imply that we may not rear and kill animals for food. When properly... | |
 | Alma Blount - American literature - 1914 - 406 pages
...lines on kindness to animals: 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. — Refer to the date of White and explain the significance of the allusion to Burgoyne, and... | |
 | James William Searson - English language - 1914 - 360 pages
...Law of the Jungle. NEEDLESS PAIN 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. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that... | |
 | Augustus Hill Kelley - Readers - 1914 - 472 pages
...— CHARLES MACKAY. SENSIBILITY 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. COWFER. THE DAUGHTER OF THE MAN WITH THE HOE "WHEN IT WAS DARK!" If you had seen her on a certain... | |
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And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. 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. 
