 | Caroline Leigh Gascoigne - 1855 - 376 pagina’s
...one hand gently, and flourishing it in the air, in time to the words — ' the poor beetle that you tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies ' " I don't know that I quite believe that, though," said Mr. Somerset, in a low voice to himself,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 1856 - 464 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 young woman in lore always looks " like Patience on a monument " Smiling at Grief.", So... | |
 | John Orr (Unitarian minister.) - 1857 - 518 pagina’s
...technical theology to vindicate the ways of God in the imposition of this law of warfare. Shakspeare said that — " The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies :" and an able Naturalist inquires, if this celebrated passage is as true in philosophy as it has become... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 420 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 424 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 l As when a giant dies." ' He might have recollected that the Queen was substantially charged with... | |
 | John Timbs - 1858 - 274 pagina’s
...quoted in support of this idea ; and we are often told with great pathos, that The poor beetle which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. Had Shakspeare written these lines in the sense in which they are visually quoted, he would have appeared... | |
 | Eliza Rennie - 1860 - 384 pagina’s
...Shakespeare, the world's grandest and greatest of wninspired monitors, tells us, "the beetle which we tread upon in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies," what shall we say of those mothers who will look smilingly, complacently, even approvingly, on, whilst... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - 1861 - 904 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 corporal...sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies" ? (1036.) This is a question upon which modern discoveries in science entitle us to offer an opinion;... | |
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - 1861 - 236 pagina’s
...words of our great and benign poet, whose large heart embraced the whole creation, — • — •" The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies.' Thus did Mr. Paulett instruct his children, and, unconsciously, myself. I resolved, henceforward, never... | |
 | Thomas Cross - 1861 - 336 pagina’s
...appreciate the beatings of the human heart, in the lowest as well as in the highest condition : — " And the poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies." I must claim the reader's indulgence for thus expatiating upon the change of my circumstances ; but... | |
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The poor beetle, which we tread upon, In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great As when a giant dies. 
