 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.  Poems - Side 178av William Cowper - 1802Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 sider
...revenge.* I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets...inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | 1909 - 236 sider
...honest. 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. How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the Good and True: otherwise impossible except... | |
 | 1909 - 316 sider
...says : " 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." And Cowper is right. order to obtain food and clothing, or because of their savage character; but we... | |
 | Flora Helm Krause - 1910 - 394 sider
...Extract) 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...inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, "Will tread aside and let the reptile... | |
 | 1911 - 784 sider
...more. 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...inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | Edwin Osgood Grover - 1911 - 72 sider
...J* * J* 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. — Cowper I AM no friend to purely psychological attachments. la some unknown future they may be satisfying,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1911 - 784 sider
...Sc. 1. 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 upon a worm. 941 Cowper : Task. Bk. vi. Line 562 CUPID — sue Love. Cupid is a casuist, A mystie, and a cabalist,... | |
 | Edward Thomas - 1911 - 388 sider
...worm : 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. In his poem on " Friendship " he does not mention female friends and even calls the love of woman "not... | |
 | James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - 1912 - 380 sider
...NEEDLESS PAIN 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...inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | Will David Howe - 1912 - 318 sider
...after him. 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...inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
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