 | 1856 - 504 pagina’s
...susceptible of pain. Is it really true in philosophy, as it has become a standing axiom in poetry, that — " The poor beetle, that we tread upon. In...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies ?" This is a question upon which modern discoveries in science entitle us to offer an opinion, and... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pagina’s
...death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come. 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. ODE indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When oar deep plots do fail ; and that should teach us There's... | |
 | 1852 - 572 pagina’s
...God's goodness. How false is the poet's idea so often quoted as a truth:— " The poor beetle which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." This is a great exaggeration. The sensibility of lower animals to pain, is very slight in comparison... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1852 - 446 pagina’s
...than that of a common man ; q,rd we eHould^remember, that " The poor beetle that we tread upon, \J In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." If a son or a brother had dethroned Louis, had imprisoned, had beheaded him (a thing that happens every... | |
 | G. F. Burckhardt - 1853 - 366 pagina’s
...considering that great and little are merely relative terms. But the inimitable Shakespeare would teach us that the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance, feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. (Meas. f. M. Ill, 1.) And this is not thrown out in the latitude of poetical imagination, but supported... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pagina’s
...And we are for the dark. AC v. 2. Dar'st thou die ? 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. MM iii. 1. Though death be poor, it ends a mortal woe. R. II. ii. 1. O you mighty gods I This world... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1853 - 946 pagina’s
...air. Are, to the jealous, confirmation strong, As proof» of Holy Writ.' That 'The poor beetle, which nds wer * And that a young woman in love always looks • like Patience on a monument Smiling at Grief.' So far,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1854 - 590 pagina’s
...of life in the lower living form, and the absence of a high sensory system. When our great poet said that — " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies ;" he stated what is not philosophically true. If the shock to the nervous system in mutilated insects... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1855 - 912 pagina’s
...susceptible of pain. Is it really true in philosophy, as it has become a standing axiom in poetry, that — " the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies''? (1 162.) This is a question upon which modern discoveries in science entitle us to offer an opinion,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - 512 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.... | |
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The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
