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. A System of English Grammar - Seite 84von Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 168 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Lucy Hake - 1828 - 506 Seiten
...! 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,... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1828 - 252 Seiten
...when she form'd, design 'd them an abode Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets toot upon a worm . An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening m the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1828 - 598 Seiten
...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... | |
| Edwin Lillie Miller - 1917 - 690 Seiten
...that he has learned so much ; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more." Winter Walk at Noon. 1. 96. " 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."... | |
| Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 412 Seiten
...at once [KINDNESS TO ANIMALS] I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the...evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight,... | |
| Ernest Bernbaum - 1918 - 422 Seiten
...slow solicitation, seize at once The roving thought, and fix it on themselves. [KINDNESS TO ANIMALS], 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.... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1918 - 350 Seiten
...half so powerful for good. No other can lift man to the divine. XV OUR LITTLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS 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... | |
| William Ray Bowlin, George Linnaeus Marsh - 1918 - 408 Seiten
...hangs his head, and a' that? — Burns 4. Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure .... — Dryden 5. I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet lacking sensibility, the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.... | |
| 1894 - 474 Seiten
...those who cannot speak for themselves that boys will be above cruelty, and ready to say with Cowper: "I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility, the mnn Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm."... | |
| William Cowper - 1854 - 580 Seiten
...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...evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight,... | |
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