 | William Cowper - 1817 - 240 lapas
...made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a hrute the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and tine sense, Yet wanting sensihility) the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 246 lapas
...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 (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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1821 - 556 lapas
...made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a brute the way to save revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends ("Though graced with polished manners uud fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent... | |
 | 1826 - 440 lapas
...or towards any part of the Creator's works, are evinced by the followmg striking lines— " I wpuld 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 lapas
...to the bee, that poets, the worst entomologists in the world, have led us astray. Cowper says, ' I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced...the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.' By worm, we wonder if he included the grub-worm. Alas ! little did that amiable man think of the mischief... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 lapas
...to the bee, that poets, the worst entomologists in the world, have led us astray. Cowper says, ' I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced...the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.' By worm, we wonder if he included the grub-worm. Alas ! little did that amiable man think of the mischief... | |
 | 1833 - 684 lapas
...Task shows the delicacy and strength of his feelings, resulting from such an organization : — " I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the man Who needlessly sots root upon a worm." And he observes in a letter... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1829 - 528 lapas
...enjoy." In another place I find him quoting with approbation the beautiful lines of 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. * ***"•».• The sum is... | |
 | 1829 - 526 lapas
...enjoy." In another place I find him quoting with approbation the beautiful lines of Cowper,— " I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced with polished manner* and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. •... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1828 - 478 lapas
...diffusion of useful knowledge ? If one of our best moral poets declared, that " he would not enter, on his list of friends, though graced with polished manners...sense, the man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm," what would be his estimate of the man who derived one of his chief gratifications, day after day, from... | |
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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... 
