 | 1845 - 904 pagina’s
...; and although we may not be inclined to go to the full extent with the immortal bard, when he says "The poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giaul dius," yet we do kriow — indeed the truth is so palpably evident as to need no proof — that... | |
 | 1846 - 424 pagina’s
...and although we may not be inclined to go to the full extent with the immortal bard, when he says " The poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies," yet we do know—indeed the truth is so palpably evident as to need no proof—that animals are extremely... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1847 - 460 pagina’s
...a king, his power and office apart, is no more than that of a common man ; and we should remember, that " The poor beetle that -we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." If a son or brother had dethroned Louis, had imprisoned, had beheaded him (a thing that happens every... | |
 | Henry Duncan - 1848 - 438 pagina’s
...sentiment which gave rise to the well known lines of the great poet : — " The little beetle which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." NINTH WEEK— WEDNESDAY. MIGRATION OF FISHES FROM THE SEA INTO RIVERS. WITH regard to the tenants of... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 526 pagina’s
...had almost wholly deprived its body of the viscera. The noted saying, that " the poor beetle which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies," however calculated to extend the range of our sympathies, certainly contains more poetry than truth.... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 500 pagina’s
...had almost wholly deprived its body of the viscera. The noted saying, that " the poor beetle which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies," however calculated to extend the range of our sympathies, certainly contains more poetry than truth.... | |
 | 1850 - 538 pagina’s
...humble a creature as a common beetle; for, although the words of Shakspeare may nut be quite true, that "The poor beetle that we tread upon, in corporal...sufferance, feels a pang as great as when a giant dies;" yet, doubtless, they have some degree of feeling; and inasmuch as we do not know how much, we shall... | |
 | Henry Theodore Cheever - 1850 - 330 pagina’s
...And though it be true what the dramatic poet said, 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^ yet I am not one that can coolly observe the last agony of so mighty an organized creature as the whale... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 560 pagina’s
...should not weigh with them — in spite of his early failure in quoting Shakspeare, exclaimed — " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies."§ He might have recollected that the Queen was substantially charged with high treason, and that in Scotland... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 566 pagina’s
...should not weigh with them — in spite of his early failure in quoting Shakspeare, exclaimed — " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies."§ He might have recollected that the Queen was substantially charged with high treason, and that in Scotland... | |
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The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
