 | 1798 - 752 sider
...never exifted : that though in " corporal fufrering, the meaneft infeft we tread upon feels a panjj as great, as when a giant dies ;" yet the death of...embittered with the fears, or difappointed hopes that afflift mankind : and, laftly, that they are the Icfs entitled to compaflion, that they feem to know... | |
 | 1798 - 756 sider
...thoughin " corporal fuiFering, the meaneft infect we tread upon feels a pang as great, as when a gi;uit dies ;" yet the death of irrational animals is not embittered with the (cars or difappointe^i Iropcs that afHift mankind : and, laftly, thai they are the bfs entitled to... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1807 - 296 sider
...honour! Do you dare to die? The sense «>f death is most in apprehension, and the peer beetle that we tread upon, feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." " Why do you give me this shame ?" said Claudia. " Think you I can fetch a resolution from flowery... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1810 - 302 sider
...honour ! Do you dare to die ? '1 he sense of death is most in apprehension, and the poor beetle that we tread upon, feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." " Why do you give me fills shame ?" said Claudio. " Think you I can fetch a resolution from flowery... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1813 - 318 sider
...perpetual honour! Do you dare to die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle that we tread upon, feels a pang as great as when a giant dies.' ' Why do you give me this shame?' said Claudio. ' Think you I can fetch a resolution from flowery tenderness?... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb - 1831 - 398 sider
...honour ! Do you dare to die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension, and the poor beetle that we tread upon, feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." "Why do you give me this, shame?" said Claudio. " Think you I can fetch a resolution from flowery tenderness... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - 460 sider
...honour! Do you dare to die? The sense of death is 4 most in apprehension, and the poor beetle that we tread upon, 'feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." " Why do you give me this shame ?" said Claudio. " Think you I can fetch a resolution from flowery... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 sider
...honour ! Do you dare to die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; and the poor beetle that we tread upon, feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." " Why do you give me this shame ? " said Claudio. " Think you I can fetch a resolution from flowery... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 790 sider
...possible, that the need to kill again may not soon return — bearing in mind ' that the poor beetle we all tread upon, feels a pang as great as when a giant dies.' Every ancient philosopher had his motto and maxim : surely that of the deontologist is 1 Chew elephant... | |
 | James Murphey - 1850 - 280 sider
...perhaps has given rise to the opinion of insect suffering by the famous lines — " The poor beetle that we tread upon feels A pang as great as when a giant dies." A sentiment beautiful, and most happily expressed, yet certainly false. The insect killed by the fish,... | |
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The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle that we tread upon, feels a pang as great as when a giant dies. 
