 | Edward W. Brayley - Physical sciences - 1831 - 146 pages
...Although we may be certain that Shakspeare mistook the appearance for the reality, when he said, that "The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies," and that the mere fact of its natural exposure to such a death would not otherwise be reconcilable... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 554 pages
...(5) Preparation. 6) Vastncss of extent. (7) Shut up. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As whi-n a giant dies. Claud. Why give you ine this shame 1 Think you I can a resolution letch From flowery... | |
 | Anna Brownell Jameson - Women in literature and art - 1832 - 378 pages
...nothing good, But graciously to know I am no hetter. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon. In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great, As when a giant dies ! "Pis not impossible But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground May seem as shy, as grave, as just,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 426 pages
...respect Than a perpetual honor. Darest thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Preparation. ! Extent. Clau. Why give you me this shame ? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 356 pages
...orders of animals ? " Instead, therefore of believing and being grieved by the belief, that the insect we tread upon " In corporal 'sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies," the very converse is nearer the truth. " Had a giant lost an arm or a leg," continue the authors just... | |
 | William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...antennae, or otherwise injure him; for although it be not quite true, yet it is useful to believe, that, The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Now put him beneath a glass, and observe him narrowly, while we proceed to describe his scientific... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And 90 ACT III. 91 Claud. Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness?... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1831 - 406 pages
...brook. I pronounce Shakspeare to be a brother of the angle, and though I find elsewhere that ( The beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, finds a pang as great As when a giant dies,' yet I impale a fresh worm, and still believe that Shakspeare was an angler. But a favorite pursuit,... | |
 | Benjamin Homans - Military art and science - 1834 - 418 pages
...which he may stand charged; for otherwise he will prove what his judges may not recollect, that, . the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great A* when a giant dies. ARISTIDES. ron THE MILITARY AND KAVAX. MAGAZI1TC. Extract from a Midshipman's... | |
 | Walter Colton - Mediterranean Sea - 1835 - 332 pages
...irremediable deprivation of life and happiness, which even in these trifling instances, we inflict; for " The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang, as great As when a giant dies." Though the antipathy of the sailor to the shark and black cat, is so unqualified, yet his friendship... | |
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And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
