 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...  The Poetical Works of William Cowper - Side 282av William Cowper - 1908 - 536 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Richard Wiggins - 1821 - 156 sider
...their distresses. Take not away that life you cannot give, For all things have an equal right to live. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls...evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. Revenge. OF all the passions which invade the... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1822 - 322 sider
...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. An inadvertent...evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. 2. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight)And... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 sider
...my list of friends (Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensihility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent...snail, That crawls at evening in the public path ; But ho that has humanity, forcwarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin,... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 sider
...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. An inadvertent...forewarned, • Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. Cowper's Task, b. 6. CURSES. Oh ! I will curse thee till thy frighted soul Runs mad with horror. Lee's... | |
 | James Wallace (ship's surgeon.) - 1824 - 192 sider
...my list of friends, (Tho' grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent...evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd Will tread aside and let the reptile live." It has already been hinted at, in the second... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - 1824 - 308 sider
...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. An inadvertent...evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forevvarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. 2 The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight,... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 sider
...may crush the snail, That crawls at evening m the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewam'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping...venom, that intrudes, A visitor unwelcome, into scenes Sacred to neatness and repose, th' alcove, The chamber, or refectory, may die : A necessary act incurs... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 sider
...friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yel wantuur sensihilily.) the man A\ ho needlessly sets foot upon a worm, An inadvertent step...crawls at evening in the public path .' But he that hath Immunity, forewarn'd, 'VN nl tread aside and let the reptile live. 2. The creeping vermin loathsome... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 sider
...graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets font upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail,...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,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 270 sider
...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. An inadvertent...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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