 | William Barker Daniel - 1813 - 820 pagina’s
...(the Reverse of which, the First of our POETS inculcates, telling us, " That the poor Beetle which we tread upon, In corporal Sufferance feels a Pang as great, As when a GlANT dies,") he ought to know, that, even with every Cabbage he devours, the Lives of more .Annuals... | |
 | 1814 - 258 pagina’s
...nourish d by that abstinence." LE REVEUR, JV'o. IV. "The sting of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." THE first of these positions is undoubtedly true — the latter, is a poetical flourish, cor.taining... | |
 | 1827 - 798 pagina’s
...called to the test, may perhaps prove heroes; for The sense of death is most in apprehension— And the poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. A profound sentence, which has been strangely perverted into a commonplace precept of humanity to beetles... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1818 - 338 pagina’s
...Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, "As proofs of Holy Writ.'* That • " The poor beetle, which we tread upon, '• In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great " As when a giant dies." And that a voung woman in love •/ C7 always looks " like Patience on a monument " Smiling at Grief."... | |
 | Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 pagina’s
...size ? Are not the parts of a worm exquisitely formed? Most certainly " the worm, on which we tread, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." — Shakespere. Cruel delight ! from native beds to drag the wounded fools, and spoil their silvery... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1821 - 724 pagina’s
...subject of the realm. The poor man ought to be protected as well as the high; for he could not forget that " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal...feels a pang as great As when a giant dies! " But coming immediately to the point un" der consideration, no man could deny that when a list of witnesses... | |
 | 1821 - 336 pagina’s
...that great and little are merely relative terms. But the inimitable Shakspeare would teach us, that he poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. And this is not thrown out in the latitude of poetical imagination, but supported by the discoveries... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pagina’s
...manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great, As when a giant dies. How far the little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Love all, trust... | |
 | Benjamin Oakley - 1823 - 442 pagina’s
...mouse. Is not the life of the mouse as dear to it as life is to the hare ? It feels as much : and " the poor beetle that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies." " All our sufferings are but the way to dusty death!" — " Out, out, brief candle ! Life's but a poor... | |
 | William Andrew Mitchell - 1824 - 40 pagina’s
...written. — Even the Lord Chancellor has treated us from the woolsack with the quotation : — " And the poor beetle that we tread upon, " In corporal...sufferance feels a pang as great " As when a giant dies." It is extraordinary that for ages the meaning of these words should have been totally misunderstood.... | |
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The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
