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 Task: In Six Books - Page 159by William Cowper - 1836 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Sutleffe - 1824 - 638 pages
...the brute creation. For my own park I am such an admirer of the sentiment of hu manity, that — " I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced...— the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." — COWPER. CAUTION NECESSARY IN THE USB OF CALOMEL. Dr. informed me, a few years ago, that his friend... | |
| William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...sought it, The death he had deserv'd, and died alone. So God wrought double justice ; made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a...revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine seuso, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot... | |
| William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...not, 555 The death he had deserv'd, and died alone. So God wrought double justice ; made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a...revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends, 560 (Though ffrac.'d with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility.) the man Who needlessly... | |
| William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...sought it, The death he had deserv'd, and died alone. So God wrought double justice ; made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a...revenge, I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot... | |
| Lucy Hake - Anecdotes - 1828 - 506 pages
...! 19 20 NUMBER IV. —s»Hif*>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 man Who needlessly sets foot open a worm. THOUGH plausible excuses, with expressions of sorrow, are too frequently made to the unfortunate,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1828 - 598 pages
...regard 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 with polished manners and fine sense, the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.' By worm, we wonder... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1828 - 598 pages
...regard 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 with polished manners and fine sense, the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.' By worm, we wonder... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 528 pages
...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 this : — If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims... | |
| Natural history - 1829 - 526 pages
...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. • * • The sum is this : — If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - Natural history - 1829 - 528 pages
...can 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... | |
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