 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...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 (Tho' grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 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 (Tho' grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent... | |
 | Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 pages
...Metamorphosis, book 15. How sweetly do others, of our most eminent poets, sing in the cause of humanity ! 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 inadvertant... | |
 | James Wallace (ship's surgeon.) - 1824 - 192 pages
...making an attempt to remove them. " I venerate the 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... | |
 | Lucy Hake - Anecdotes - 1828 - 334 pages
...register of thy deeds to heaven, and there thou wilt meet a just reward! NUMBER IV. ON SENSIBILITY. I would not enter on my list of friends, (Tho' grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the roan Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. THOUGH plausible... | |
 | Rod Preece - Nature - 2002 - 436 pages
...man gives them a peculiar cause for it.54 He was, however, a friend to more than companion animals: 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... | |
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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 ev'ning in the public path ? But he... 