 | William Enfield - 1804 - 418 ページ
...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 ,... | |
 | Francis Douce - 1807 - 528 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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 ページ
...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... | |
 | William Barker Daniel - 1813 - 568 ページ
...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,... | |
 | 1814 - 258 ページ
...REVEUR, JV'o. IV. "The sting 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." THE first of these positions is undoubtedly true — the latter, is a poetical flourish, cor.taining... | |
 | 1827 - 798 ページ
...prove heroes; for 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. A profound sentence, which has been strangely perverted into a commonplace precept of humanity to beetles... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1818 - 338 ページ
...confirmation strong, "As proofs of Holy Writ.'* That • " The poor beetle, which we tread upon, '• In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great " As when a giant dies." And that a voung woman in love •/ C7 always looks " like Patience on a monument " Smiling at Grief."... | |
 | Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 ページ
...size ? Are not the parts of a worm exquisitely formed? Most certainly " the worm, on which we tread, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." — Shakespere. Cruel delight ! from native beds to drag the wounded fools, and spoil their silvery... | |
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The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
